Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overtime because they do not want or need to put in extra hours at work; average factory wages in December, after all, hit a new record of $102 a week, or $2.50 an hour. But the bulk of younger workers, burdened with the expenses of setting up households, are eager for any additional cash. Says William Goldmann, assistant regional director for the U.A.W. in Los Angeles, "Our members start complaining about excessive overtime, and we get them down to nine or ten hours a day. They work like that for a while, and then they come...
...base of operations from the White House to Democratic National Committee headquarters. He knows the big cities' bosses, will be helpful to Johnson's campaign. > Legislative Liaison Aide Larry O'Brien will stay, but switch to strictly political duties later this year. O'Brien is eager to quit his role as middleman between the White House and Capitol Hill, and with Johnson in the driver's seat it is easy to see why. >Speechwriter Ted Sorensen will depart, probably before year's end, to write his close-in, intimate view of the Kennedy Administration...
Cattle & Collectors. But such leniency was more than Mali's President Modibo Keita could afford. Eager to create a sound, solvent state, he exercised his sovereignty in 1962 by raising Mali's cattle tax by 300% (to $1.20 a head), stubbornly insisted on collecting it. The Tuaregs saw no reason why they should obey. Blithely, they began smuggling their cattle into Niger and Upper Volta. When Keita's tax collectors cracked down, the Tuaregs began shooting...
...dusty little compound near the lumberyards of old Stamboul, across the Golden Horn from modern Istanbul. There, Athenagoras rises at 7 for prayer, spends most of his days keeping up with a vast worldwide correspondence and seeing visitors, to whom he offers a tidbit of sickly sweet Turkish jam. Eager to prod Orthodoxy into a dialogue with other churches, Athenagoras looked forward to his meeting with the Pope. "The ice has been broken," said Athenagoras. "Soon a new era will begin in the history of Christendom...
...Shakespeare puts in Sir John Falstaffs mouth the famous speech slighting honor ("Who hath it? He that died of a Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No . . . I'll have none of it then!"), Rowse writes: "I think we may conclude that Shakespeare, sensible man, would not have been eager to risk his life for honor...