Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Status Seekers. With Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home in Moscow this week for the formal treaty signing, oth er nations are only too eager to join hands and sign, too. Ironically, they are all non-nuclear powers, and except for a handful, they will never have a nucle ar capability. At week's end the following had agreed to sign: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, East Germany, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Li beria, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Soma lia, the U.A.R...
...Club. The rates are set by clubby "conferences" of ship lines, where less attention is paid to a cargo's weight and bulk or the distance to be carried than to what the traffic will bear. The conferences are dominated by foreign-subsidized lines, each of which is eager to promote its own country's exports. To discourage rate wars, the Commerce Department has insisted that its own subsidized lines adhere to the conference rates...
...clear now that the popular image of Yevtushenko is largely the product of over-zealous western imagination, eager for some sign of the decay of Soviet society. On the contrary, the phenomenon of Yevtushenko is a sign of vigorous health. It means Soviet society is beginning to accept the important doctrine that "a strong man is not afraid of showing his weaknesses...
...outside the meeting rooms of the conference, the New York Governor showed that despite the steep drop in his popularity rating after his remarriage, he is still a political personality. Again and again at Miami Beach, the beaming Governor and his smiling wife Margaretta were surrounded by eager autograph seekers. They did not even need to sign their last name-they just scrawled "Rocky" and "Happy...
...stiff and ludicrous. But in the third act, when all the unleashed forces seek and obtain resolution, the Players were smooth, polished, and sparkling. Etain O'Malley, who is not voluptuous enough to be the vamp she attempter earlier, was superb as she first disposed of one eager lover and then skillfully trapped Tanner...