Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt sprang from the ambitions of a number of county leaders eager to limit New York City Mayor Robert Wagner's influence over the Democratic party. These leaders sought to counter Wagner's 1961 victory over the party organization. In addition, all of them (except George Palmer of Schenectady) had been early supporters of Kennedy's entrance into New York politics. They had urged him to run and had worked diligently for his election. Clearly they hoped to protect their renaissance by using the umbrella of his name...
Clubbies have the most hands in the greatest number of political pies at Harvard. They form the largest cohesive group of undergraduates and, when mobilized, exert a dynamic influence upon the student body. As class marshals, they lead the line of eager seniors at commencement. They organize class reunions. They become Fellows of the Corporation and members of the Board of Overseers. They win fame and fortune in government and finance, and when they die they leave large sums of money to the University. They are praised in clubhouse fable and song, on building plaques, and in fellowship titles, while...
...time the ticket office opened is doors at 9, the line of eager customers for tickets to the Princeton game stretched a full block from the office on Boylston, St. back to Dunster St. The first man in line said he had been waiting since...
...Four eager eaters called Comstock Hall Wednesday afternoon to reserve places at dinner, but they were unable to find a sponsor and returned home hungry...
Another party is yet to be heard from. Both the Justice Department and Presidential Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley are eager to test the legality of "conglomerate mergers," in which large corporations with different product lines join to the possible disadvantage of small competitors. The American-Consolidated agreement seems large enough and important enough to be one that Washington might examine...