Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crumbling southern front. Rising swiftly after the war, Brezhnev was elected in 1952 to the party's Central Committee and Secretariat, became a candidate member of its executive arm, the Presidium. In 1954, he got his big job in Kazakhstan. Blessed by adequate rainfall and an eager labor force, he brought in the first two successful Virgin Lands harvests, returned to Moscow in triumph to resume his old Central Committee and Presidium jobs...
...forever sending out lengthy questionnaires to its circulation list (60% of the subscribers usually fill them out). If nothing else, News Front qualifies as one of the most exclusive giveaway magazines in print. Publisher Ward vigilantly keeps his subscriber list pure, firmly turns down unqualified junior executives who are eager to get a free subscription for the prestige it may confer. This, as much as News Front's content, may explain why business leaders seem willing to let the magazine drop in their In basket each month. Every year, Publisher Ward asks his subscribers, by mail, if they want...
...more and more U.S. companies. Businessmen, from the Medicis to the Morgans, have often been eager patrons of the arts. In recent years the big foundations-usually set up with fortunes earned in business-have been the most generous and experimental in supporting culture. But corporations are beginning to catch up on both counts. Last year U.S. business spent more than $25 million in support of art, literature and music, and this year it is expected to spend 10% more...
...Train, eager to be the player who beat Harvard, became cautious. He left a forehand hanging in mid-court, and Francis put it away...
There was also an increase in applications from daughters of Harvard graduates. Mrs. Stimpson suggested that Harvard fathers have probably been more eager to have their daughters attend Radcliffe since the introduction of the Harvard diploma...