Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, the Kennedy Administration is doing its best to make it appear no giveaway. Anxious to see the deal go through, U.S. shippers have agreed to trim their prices to within a few dollars of foreign rates. The Administration also has another way around its shipping dilemma: let its eager private dealers sell the grain on a "cost-and-freight" basis, under which they will arrange the shipping themselves, and include the cost in the total package. The dealers will take a chance on getting smaller profits if they have to ship American, but can reap fatter profits if they...
Others might count him out and declare his remarriage to be a hopeless liability, but Rocky insisted that he was in the race to stay. And though eager to bring down Barry Goldwater, he fired away, as a good Republican should, at the Democrats instead. He had three things against the Kennedy Administration, he said: "Its failure to stimulate the American economy ... its failure to preserve the strength and the unity of the free world and the vitality of its alliances, and its failure to understand and meet the menace of Communism...
After a talk with King Paul at Tatoi palace, he changed his mind. After all, Papandreou lacked a majority by eleven seats. The Premier could have a safe margin if he accepted the eager support of 30 pro-Communist Deputies, but so far pro-Western Papandreou has rejected the offer. Between now and Dec. 11, when Parliament convenes, Karamanlis hopes to attract enough Deputies to defeat the opening vote of confidence. If he succeeds, Greece will be in for new elections and another free-swinging campaign...
...Challenge & Opportunity." Like the competition for good corporation presidents or college football players, it's all a matter of supply and demand. Wealthy congregations in the cities and suburbs of both the East and West coasts usually have more eager candidates than they can easily screen. When California's Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church went minister hunting recently, the pulpit committee received an avalanche of messages from out-of-state pastors-some offering to take a salary cut to move to an area with growth possibilities. Rural areas of the South or small Midwestern towns have to take potluck...
...Eager to embrace the past, the widow keeps only tenuous links to the here and now. Her apartment has become an antique shop in which everything is for sale. "Be careful with these dishes-they are sold," she warns her dinner guests. Every evening she compulsively gambles away all she owns at the local casino. She spurns a stolid admirer who is in the demolition business, destroying the old to make way for the new in the "martyred city" of Boulogne. Most troubled of the four is the widow's stepson, who cannot forget (nor can any conscientious Frenchman...