Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rely on an artificial arm or leg. Under the care of skilled therapists, infants spend an average 72 days as in-patients in the Springfield hospital, learning to use simple beginner prostheses-a hook for a hand, a short, thick stilt for a leg. Because they are naturally so eager to walk and to handle objects, infants usually accept the prostheses as parts of their own bodies...
...booming Museum of Science and Industry can invite companies to supply elaborate displays that meet its main educational requirement, which is to trace the sequence of an industrial development from the basic scientific discovery to its future applications. Even though they get credit only in modest plaques, firms are eager to respond; the museum's 14 acres of floor space house $25 million worth of exhibits paid for by 50 major U.S. corporations. Last week Moscow announced that its first show in the U.S. of Soviet space exploits will be put on in Chicago next year...
Monday-Morning Quarterbacks. It used to be that a coach could experiment in the preseason games and forget the score. But now there are all those eager faces in the stands, all those Monday-morning quarterbacks camped in front of all those TV sets. Two weeks ago, Harlan Svare took his Los Angeles Rams up to Portland, Ore., for a scrimmage with the Dallas Cowboys. In the second quarter, Svare decided to give Rookie Quarterback Bill Munson some practice, so he benched Terry Baker-who hails from Portland. Thirty thousand fans booed everything Munson did. The Portland Reporter even...
...Tammy Teen will, and she will squeal over Sean just as loud as mother eeeeeked for Errol. The boy looks like his old man-he has the same empty, eager eyes and the same silly, lopsided smile. And the young pup acts like the old dog too-he is already known in the trade as Flynn-Tin-Tin. But Sean has something going for him besides his moniker. He has an All-American body and a wild Irish charm. He seems born to be a Hollywood buccaneer and climb upon the rigging like his daddy used...
Down will come the 33-story hotel, and in its place will rise a 40-story office skyscraper that will house the New York and overseas headquarters of General Motors. G.M. is eager to trade up from its shabby, 37-year-old offices at Broadway and 57th Street. Rayne is more than happy to accommodate G.M. by razing the Savoy Plaza; he believes that the New York hotel market is overbuilt and will be in trouble after the World's Fair closes. Says he: "What's good for General Motors is good for London Merchant Securities...