Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today in our beloved country we have an Administration which seems eager to deal with Communism in every coin known-from gold to wheat; from consulates to confidence, and even human freedom itself...
Drill a Little Deeper. Understandably eager for oil, little Jordan celebrated the spudding in of Mecom's first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron. Mecom was banqueted by King Hussein, in turn entertained Jordanian officials with a dinner party at the new Jerusalem Intercontinental Hotel on the Mount of Olives. The jaunty young King spilled oil ceremonially over the rig, and a dozen lambs were slaughtered and sent to the poor in a good-luck ritual...
Ready to Resign. In his exercise of common sense and judgment, Kitchel's sensitivities are sometimes staggered by the folkways of American politics. During Barry's New Hampshire primary campaign, Kitchel watched disgustedly as an eager mother pushed her baby into the candidate's arms. He murmured: "If he kisses that baby, I resign." (Barry didn't kiss and Kitchel didn't resign.) He has also developed a simple expedient for avoiding political arguments that offend him; he simply tunes down his hearing...
...Russians were eager to learn, gladly put up with Paāques' innocuous profiles of government ministers and long-winded explanations of French diplomatic thinking until their instructor could provide them with more valuable information. For his part, Paâques insisted that his pupils at least be apt. When an embassy official named Lysenko became his contact in 1959, Paâques complained crabbily about the Russian's "lesser intellectual capacity" and Lysenko's banal insistence on teaching him how to use a microcamera...
...mating of two or more products in a single display. Used last year by more than 400 companies, tie-ins have brought together such disparate products as RCA Victor and Schenley whiskies, Hathaway shirts and Air India, Remington Arms shotguns and Stetson hats. United Air Lines is so eager to tie that it is setting up a special budget for the purpose, will listen to any proposals short of liquor and lingerie...