Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time he got to San Francisco, Bill Scranton's machine was in full gear. In 48 rooms on three floors of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, scores of eager workers performed their appointed tasks-from drafting speeches to ordering cookie and fruit between-meals snacks for the candidate. A complex communications network had been in stalled-including a 15-circuit phone switchboard, and a special "hot line" system linking hotel headquarters to the Cow Palace convention floor and to two communications trailers parked outside. Code words were used in tele phone conversations to confuse possible eavesdroppers, and the whole headquarters...
...times, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy seemed more like an eager office hunter on the hustings than a tourist in Poland. As thousands of Poles cheered him on a half-day visit to Cracow, Kennedy turned to the city's mayor and joked, "I am going to announce my candidacy for the mayoralty of Cracow...
Nonetheless, there'll always be an English secretary. In London and New York, employment agencies are still processing the eager young things by the score, placing them at typewriters in Boston-Chicago and San Francisco-from where they may eventually move to New York if they wish. They do not work for coolie wages either; they may start for less than Americans when they are new to the country, but soon make $80 to $110 a week. Last week the government heard pleas to reconsider its New York ban, conceded that there may have been a misunderstanding, and promised...
Home Crusades. The anti-Jewish polemic was not uncommon to the militant and quite intolerant 12th century British church, which had already sent two crusades against infidels, and under Richard the Lionhearted was raising a third. Zealous Christians, certain that the Last Judgment was just around the corner, and eager to pay back the pagans, were just as ready to take revenge on the Jews of Britain as they were to recover Jerusalem from the Moslems...
...clerks and production workers. Companies accept some 30% of the suggestions, save an estimated $200 million a year from the ideas they take out of the box. Says Douglas Aircraft President Donald W. Douglas Jr.: "These ideas help us improve our competitive position through reduced costs." Ford is so eager for ideas that employees who win the maximum $6,000 award also receive a new car. So far this year, ten suggestion stars have lifted themselves into Galaxies...