Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large, however, the portrait of an energetic excited man certainly foreshadowed by personas like Zorba the Greek emerges clearly. Praising change, Kazantzakis cries out "What a joy I feel that life is eager to leave me behind; ...is leaping toward other, young people; is attracted by other dark heads! But I am not defeated or left behind, because I am not angry." This kind of optimism lightens even the most horrifying war descriptions...
...times Iacavazzi tried his famous leap over the line, and twice a ready band of Crimson men stopped him in mid air and threw him back vigorously. On the third time, however, Iacavazzi just barely crossed the goal and an eager referee signalled touchdown. Charlie Gogolak kicked the extra point and Princeton was back in the game trailing only by a score...
That crowd was too big for Hassan, who proposed a cozier group to meet in Bamako, Mali, with President Keita, Emperor Haile Selassie and Ben Bella. Although Algeria finally agreed, neither side seemed particularly eager to settle the war, because the political benefits of patriotic fervor were considerable. Ben Bella was drafting all his unemployed into the army, and Hassan's own domestic opposition faded, at least temporarily, while crowds cheered him and kissed his hands...
Aerospace and electronics companies are desperate for skilled technicians, and soon Joe Sherman was flooded with responses from personnel managers. In accordance with now-current practice in this competitive field, all were eager to pay his expenses if he would just appear for a personal interview. Joe judiciously accepted selected offers, pocketed the money for his air fare, and took off cross-country from his Pasadena, Calif., home in his battered automobile...
...Garrett shares, or 47% of the total outstanding (TIME, Oct 18). Mosher moved in quickly, adding 100,000 shares of Garrett to the 12,000 that Signal had previously owned, thus stalling Curtiss. At this point Curtiss tried again-offering Garrett Stockholders $57 a share. Garrett's management, eager not to be swallowed up by troubled Curtiss-Wright, then sat down for three days of discussion with Signal. At the end of it, Garrett had agreed to become an independent subsidiary of Signal Oil. Unless Curtiss can stop it legally, the merger is to take effect in December...