Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eager group of young Republicans supporting Ford plotted strategy in secret meetings, worked hard to round up votes. At week's end they thought they could count the 71 needed to elect Ford by secret ballot in a party caucus on Jan. 4. But they conceded that many of these votes were shaky-especially if Halleck fights all out to stay...
While natural gas supplies only 2% of Western Europe's energy now, some experts predict that it will grab 10% of the market by 1975-probably at the expense of coal's 48%. Gasmen are eager to hurry that day along. After the year 2000, the Dutch experts figure, atomic power will begin to steal the market from...
...human mind can recall," wants to write an expose of her. His working title is "Does She or Doesn't She?" She doesn't, of course, and remains a brunette to the end. To get his story, Tony goes to seek her professional advice, posing as an eager but impotent husband and giving the name of his next-door neighbor (Henry Fonda). Fonda already has trouble enough trying to persuade his jealous wife (Lauren Bacall) that his presidency of the Sexy Sox company is not merely a front for habitual philandering...
While still eager to catch such big fish as Martin Bormann, Hitler's top deputy, and Heinrich Müller, a boss of the Gestapo, who are repeatedly rumored to be alive in hiding, Bonn claims that an extension of the statute would mainly net unimportant minnows at home, and overburden prosecutors who find it harder and harder to prove specific charges after 20 years. As one official puts it: "If you want to bring to court every railroad man who pulled the switches at Auschwitz, knowing that the trains were carrying Jews to their deaths, there will...
...Ustinov), a peeved potentate whose son failed to make the Notre Dame varsity. Shirley MacLaine just happens to be at hand as a reporter getting a picture-magazine scoop inside the seraglio. The vengeful Fawz fields a football team of his own and blackmails Goldfarb into coaching it. An eager U.S. State Department sends the Irish to the Middle East, where they are wined, dined, wiggled at, and ultimately defeated (34-29) by the burnoosed bandits of Fawz...