Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stick-men and shifty skaters. Pilous concentrated on teamwork and hard-checking, hard-skating conditioning. The Black Hawks are the only team in the league that regularly holds a workout on the day of a game. When they get on the ice, says Pilous, "they should be sharp and eager and ready to take a bite out of the puck." Pilous' approach has helped Left Wing Bobby Hull, 24, become one of the most explosive scorers in hockey history, with a record-tying 50 goals last year. Hull got off to a slow start this year...
...Miller to read the Elizabethans for his own good, and Miller in turn-partly because he is writing a 1,000-page exegesis on Hamlet-is humbly asking Durrell for "the lowdown on Hamlet ... I can't bring myself to read the damned thing. But I am very eager to get some penetrative interpretations of it." Durrell obliged, but Hamlet sort of disappeared when Miller wrote about him; it was really Miller on Miller. Durrell might have expected that from a man who admitted: "I am against knowledge. I abhor it. I loathe it. I want to become more...
...accepting the principle of on-site inspection and permitting the placement of automatic seismographic stations in "black boxes," Russia made a major concession to the United States' position, Levchenko contended. But, he said, America's failure to reciprocate indicates the U.S. "is not eager to end nuclear tests...
...highly visible was the new 21-man Cabinet, and most Western observers liked what they saw. Said one: "In general, they're a topnotch bunch of responsible, eager, exceptionally well-educated people." Many of the ministers have lived or have been educated in the West, ranging from Foreign Minister Shabib, who graduated from London University and is married to an Englishwoman, to Finance Minister Salih Kubba, who attended the University of California and has an international reputation as an economist. Seven of the new Cabinet ministers were in Kassem's concentration camp at Rashid military base until...
...renaissance) Party. More an idea than an ideology, the basic Baath doctrine insists that "there are no Arab nations; there is only one Arab nation." This creed is, of course, warmly embraced by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, but Aref and Iraq's Baath Party seem hardly eager to fall under Cairo's domination. The Baathist leaders in Iraq, in fact, have reshaped their doctrine of Arab unity into a concept of federation of Arab states without a centralized dictatorship. This could mean anything, including a revival of the old concept of loose unity in the "Fertile...