Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land that had just been through two disputatious election campaigns. All of the proposals were accepted in a three-way agreement made last month by Peru's two opposition parties, which together control Congress, and Belaunde's own coalition. The opposition did not want to seem eager to obstruct such obviously admirable aims...
EVERY magazine, to some extent, - chooses its own readers-by the assumptions it must make about the range of interests its readers share. We naturally make a few assumptions about TIME readers: that they are interested in what's new, that they are eager to be well informed, that their time is valuable, that their curiosity is broad and extends to the frivolous as well as the serious, and that they will work to understand what matters-in all fields...
Except for three New York students who are living in dormitories, the high schoolers commute from neighboring communities. Although the committee admitted no student from other parts of the country, it is eager to do so in the future, provided that the applicants have valid reasons for wanting to come to Harvard. As one student put it, "The Summer School is not a summer camp for people who have nothing else...
...ASIA. In the days of the British raj, Anglicanism made most of its Indian converts from the untouchables, eager to escape the horrors of the Hindu caste system. The church now has extensively Indianized its services-psalms are sung not in modes but in droning Indian ragas-but survives largely because of its excellent schools. In Hong Kong, the only free diocese of the captive Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (Holy Catholic Church in China) is a classic missionary model of how to do much with little. Sprightly Bishop Ronald Owen Hall has only 55 priests and 25,000 members...
This summer, however, students eager to find answers for their most vexing problems have been turning in increasing numbers to Miss Radcliffe Berates, a highly attractive, brilliantly articulate and piercingly perceptive 'Cliffie. With her talent for sharp, concise, penetrating analysis, Miss Berates has often been able to find solutions that have eluded the most highly paid analyists...