Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite eager young swains like Scott Thompson, there was no obvious rush to get married. This surprised no one at Selective Service. One official pointed out that married men have always been "traditionally" called after unmarried men anyway, and that many draftees-to-be had long ago compared the Army to matrimony and decided, "Better a two-year stretch than a lifetime sentence...
Engaged in a game that's known in the trade as Nameville, highly paid admen and eager auto executives seldom rest in their search for something new. Among a crop of 1964 models previewed recently in Detroit were cars yclept: the Pontiac Brougham (pronounced broom), after England's Lord Brougham (1778-1868), who designed the original four-seater carriage; the Mercury Comet Caliente, which is "hot" in Spanish and hot in Detroit; the intermediate Chevrolet Chevelle-with the additives "300," "Malibu" or "Malibu SS"; and the Chrysler 300-K, which is simply the next after...
Costly Prospect. Texas Gulf was eager to sell, though earnings last year were $6,300,000 and stand to increase 40% in 1963. The company is controlled by two brothers, Chairman Gordon Reed, 63, and President Lawrence S. Reed, 58, who spent almost ten years buying and selling oil leases before they took over Texas Gulf in 1941. The Reed brothers have also been adept at oil prospecting. Their greatest strike was the 150 million bbl. Headlee Field in West Texas' Permian Basin. But that was in 1952, and the costs of finding another one like it today...
LOVE ME, LOVE ME, LOVE ME. They sneak into his garden and peep through a window to see him taking his bath. Males bother him too. They say he strides like "a supercharged sports car parading." He once found an eager young fellow lying flat on his back under one of his automobiles, refusing to budge unless Yujiro would hire him as a chauffeur...
...this year's crop of young record breakers returns to Tokyo for the Olympics. "We have upwards of 600,000 swimmers under systematic training back home," said Casey, "and more than 2,000 paid coaches working for them." Japan may well have uncounted pools full of promising teenagers eager to repeat the upset of '32. But the roster of salaried Japanese swimming coaches numbers less than...