Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies can depreciate new equipment 18% faster than before; under a more liberal tax credit plan, they can deduct 7% on plant modernization costs from their taxes. The Treasury estimates that these two plans place an additional $2.5 billion at the disposal of U.S. companies this year. Businessmen seem eager to reach for the new tools that the machine tool industry is anxious to supply...
...life he felt most at home in the 16th century, and to recapture a time unscarred by "the deceptive sweetenings of existence," he built a round stone tower at Bollingen on Lake Zurich, where he comforted himself in total anachronism. Eager in his old age to chip into stone the thoughts that had escaped him on paper, he surrounded his tower with totems and painstakingly carved stone tablets, and over his door he carved his final confession of faith: "Called or Not Called, God Is Present." Tourists taking their holiday on the lake often saw him, as their boats passed...
...hearings, the quality of discussion was curiously uneven. It was clear, for example, that the radical Negro civil rights lawyer, Conrad Lynn, was eager to discuss his view that Negroes in America should arm themselves in self-defense, and to explain why Cuba's Inter-racial society might seem utopian to Americans who had suffered discrimination all their lives...
Block the Rejection. Medical men who hate eager chatter about "breakthroughs" because it raises false hopes in patients are willing to make one exception. They concede that it will indeed be a major breakthrough when a way is found to tune down the immune mechanism just enough so that a transplant will take and the patient will still have a defense against infectious diseases...
...conservative Protestants who objected to liberal tendencies in the old Federal Council of Churches, the association has sometimes seemed to be the great dissenter of U.S. Christianity. In past conventions, delegates hurled mighty anathemas at their list of enemies of the Gospel-liberal Protestants, Godless Communists, Roman Catholics eager for political influence. "But now we have a position." observes the Rev. Stan Mooneyham of Wheaton, 111. "We are no longer reacting...