Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over economic troubles. It also stirred hope again that Cardinal Mindszenty might soon leave his lonely exile in the U.S. legation in Budapest. For in Prague to hear the news of Beran's freedom was Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar, the Red satellite leader who seems most eager to reach some new form of concord with the church...
...railroads with merger applications before the Interstate Commerce Commission, none are more eager to unite than the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central. The Central lost $4.4 million and the Pennsy $1.1 million during 1963's first half. Both badly need to strengthen their competitive positions, particularly since the rich Chesapeake & Ohio has already gained ICC approval to control the Baltimore & Ohio, and the well-run Norfolk & Western appears certain to win an O.K. to merge with the Wabash and Nickel Plate...
...Although eager to replace the confusion of 28 different levels of rents with one standard rate, the Administration and the Masters have not yet produced a rational alternative way to allocate rooms. The few hazy ideas presented involve some combination of seniority and a lottery. Relying on a blind draw is not an attractive way to distribute rooms of varying quality, and seniority will only result in constant room switching, as often occurs at Yale. Perennial moving is not only inconvenient to students, but it also inevitably defaces the Houses, as refrigerators, couches, and trunks are squeezed...
...Administration was eager to close the deal. But it had several bushels of problems. The Soviets like to pay only 25% down for their wheat, and the rest over 18 months. But U.S. law forbids credit sales to countries that have defaulted on their debts to the U.S., as the Soviets did on their lend-lease debt to the tune of $800 million. Beyond that, the U.S. taxpayer would be subsidizing the sale: to make up the difference between the high-propped U.S. price of about $2.30 and the world market price of about $1.75, the Government pays U.S. wheat...
This time Metalious has foxed rumormongers by creating a cast of characters that couldn't be anybody. She traces the roots of their wretchedness to a neighborhood of Quebec that could have been invented only by a writer eager to fix Canada's wagon for banning Peyton Place. Her point seems to be that frigidity leads to murder and murder leads to sloth, drunkenness and terrible profanity. In three generations of women, only one survives to appreciate the wonders of conjugal love. Looking back on the murderous folly of her mother and granny, the heroine exclaims with...