Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Vaughn will not have Tom Mann's personal pipeline to the White House as a special assistant to Johnson, he is taking an aggressive and eager approach to his job. He may depend less on a massive infusion of dollars to solve Latin-American problems. "Man does not live by G.N.P. alone," he says. "After looking at the results of our foreign aid program around the world and seeing how few attitudes have been changed and how little it has to do with better government, self-respect and social change, I feel there are several missing ingredients." Among...
Even if the court rejects the C.C.C.L. brief, it faces three other aspiring pro-contraceptive amid-the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a group of 141 leading U.S. doctors, and the ever-eager American Civil Liberties Union. Anticontraceptive Connecticut, on the other hand, has not found an amicus willing to speak up in court...
...assault that flared into an international incident. "That sounds like mortars," said Mauldin to his hutmate, an Army colonel. Ignoring instructions to dive into the nearest bunker, Mauldin sprinted into action while chattering out loud in English as a precautionary measure: clad only in shorts, he was eager not to be mistaken for one of the Viet Cong, who habitually sport such abbreviated battle dress...
...plenty of hard-line Stalinists in government and an old anticlerical tradition. Churches are empty and in poor repair; most of the dioceses are without bishops; priests are still arrested for anti-regime activities. But even here the church's prospects are improving. President Antonin Novotny is eager to touch up the Czech image in the West, and his government was clearly embarrassed when the Pope bestowed a red hat on Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran, now under house arrest. Czech exiles in Rome are preparing Beran's quarters for the consistory, and last week there were...
Worst affected by exhaust fumes are the eager tailgaters who cause the many-car pile-ups for which the free ways are famous. "The way to get the biggest dose," says Haagen-Smit, "is to keep as close as one can to the car ahead of you. The fellow who does that gets the most carbon monoxide, also the most lead, oxides of nitrogen, carcinogens, everything...