Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question of Red China's admission to the United Nations, the U.S. Administration found little cause for comfort. Like the Tories, the Labor government advocates seating the Communist Chinese-but the Laborites are almost certain to be more activist in achieving their aim. The British are also eager to bring Red China into disarmament discussions. Britain, said Gordon Walker, will "consider very favorably" the suggestion by U.N. Secretary General U Thant that the nuclear powers get together with the Chinese Communists for talks on the matter-this despite a U.S. rejection of the idea only a few days before...
Some retired army officers and a few still active ones in the lower echelons may be willing to make a deal with Perón. Many politicians also seem eager to make deals; police estimate that 500 Argentine "tourists" are now in Madrid seeking to see the onetime dictator...
...Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire made a series of speeches back in 1959 and 1960 castigating Lyndon Johnson's "dictatorial" tactics as Senate majority leader. In the 1964 campaign, he made it clear that he was eager to let bygones be bygones, but Proxmire's differences with the President persisted -at the polls. During anxious early hours, in which L.B.J. began rolling up a huge majority in Wisconsin, Bill Proxmire, 49, trailed his moderate Republican opponent, Wilbur Renk, 55. Proxmire finally won, but his victory was less a reflection of his own popularity than of rural distaste...
Unable to dent Mayor Daley's turf in Chicago, Percy has also failed to hold the traditional Republican flank in the rural areas downstate, despite visits of the "chuckwagon"--a station wagon filled with his handsome family--at almost every fair in the past two years. An eager, freshly scrubbed Chicago businessman, Percy has aroused no passion and even awakened some vague distrust in farmers who respect Kerner as an able, hardworking man who has not sought new tax revenue for use in urban projects...
...consumer, for his part, is eager to try new ways of going into debt. One increasingly popular method is for a homeowner to refinance his old mortgage, thus getting from the bank, in effect, a new loan equaling what he had already paid off on the old mortgage. New forms of charge accounts, including those that can be repaid in installments, have become so widespread that 65% of all department-store sales are now charged. Many stores are also encouraging today's affluent teen-agers to take out special charge accounts. To speed the wheels of the credit society...