Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eager to improve the lot of Iron Curtain Catholics, the Vatican would like to regularize these portents of good will-and may well establish formal diplomatic relations with Moscow some day. Last week, L'Osservatore Romano front-paged a theoretical article, written by Msgr. Cardinale, on the general necessity of consular relationships between sovereign states. Asked at a Rome press conference about exchanging consuls with the Vatican, Adzhubei certified that it was "a good idea." Another reporter wondered if Father-in-Law Nikita, who may visit Rome later in the year, would also call on the Pope. Atheist Adzhubei...
...Glen, then nine, badgered Slaton to teach him and his fellow Cub Scouts how to get the most out of their new chemistry sets. Slaton was soon teaching chemistry to 20 Cubs in his home, got a bacteriologist to teach the use of microscopes. Response was so eager that Slaton had to branch into electronics...
...Class A office buildings, with some 50,632,000 sq. ft. of space, have been built on crowded Manhattan Island. Nearly all of them are rented at or near capacity (the overall vacancy rate is 3%). As the U.S.'s Headquarters City, New York seems to find eager customers for every new square foot. Only 30 years ago, the skeptics laughed derisively when John D. Rockefeller Jr. built Rockefeller Center in midtown. But now that real estate, foot for foot, is probably the most valuable in town...
Eighteen thousand eager fans packed Madison Square Garden to see the self-proclaimed "greatest heavyweight of them all" fulfill his pre-fight promise to level Jones in four. They greeted the decision with a storm of boos and cries of "fake...
...NATO itself is the "disarray" that seems to haunt its councils. Yet allied differences are not so much symptoms of any deep-rooted disunity as the result of NATO's military effectiveness. Because they know that they are secure behind the U.S. nuclear shield, few European nations are eager to build up conventional forces for which they see little use. At the same time, as they have grown more powerful and prosperous, Europeans have come to question total U.S. control of nuclear weapons for the foreseeable future. Thus dependence breeds mistrust...