Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon and Johnson and Goldwater, found that the President had overwhelming leads-69% to 24% against Nixon, 75% to 20% against Goldwater. But such polls are patently absurd so early in any election year. And despite growing talk that Johnson can't lose, some ready, willing and eager Republicans were plainly ready to prove it wrong...
Duprey returned with the news that Athenagoras was eager for the meeting, although as spokesman for Orthodoxy he had first to get the approval of the other patriarchates and autocephalous churches. By last week Athenagoras felt that the consensus favored his going, dispatched two prelates to the Vatican to work out final details of the encounter...
...greatest potential market is Russia. Khrushchev has told U.S. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Roving Diplomat Averell Harriman and just about every other visiting businessman and journalist in Moscow that he is eager to buy not fertilizer but entire fertilizer plants from the U.S. Whether or not to sell him plants is a high-policy decision now facing President Johnson and Congress. One sticker is the Export Control Act, which bars the shipment of anything that would significantly help the Communist bloc's economy. Farmer Khrushchev would be the first to hope that U.S. fertilizer plants would do just that...
...shocked to discover that motels charged $2 a night for each child. He decided to open a motel in which parents could enjoy some luxury at moderate prices and have their children put up free. The idea caught on-not only with families but with traveling businessmen and eager franchisers; today Wilson, 50, flies 150,000 miles annually to open new inns or pick additional locations. Although innkeeping has made him a millionaire, he still lives in a modest Memphis ranch house, still entertains with outdoor barbecues. He greets favored visitors with special business cards bearing their names, and below...
...suffer. But de Gaulle is not concerned with agriculture alone. This spring the Kennedy round of tariff negotiations begins, and if they are successful, the United States will assume a more important position in the European economy. Such increased economic ties would strengthen Atlantic partnership. De Gaulle is not eager for that, nor does he believe that the economic results would benefit France. Germany, on the other hand, is enthusiastic about a closer economic relationship with the United States. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is convinced that increased markets in America would help expand Germany's industrial economy...