Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening of dancing at Baltimore's annual Spinsters' Ball, a white-tie affair in which passed-over postdebutantes in their late 20s take another try at meeting the right sort of men. With another couple, the Zantzingers stopped off for preball dinner at downtown Baltimore's Eager House...
...Special Branch detectives charged with safeguarding the borders of the sprawling Rhodesian Federation have been run ragged lately. In the north, there is a steady traffic of white mercenaries and African soldiers from the routed Katangese army, who slip across the Congo line to peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last week the harried...
...start a one-class jet service with five-abreast seating and a fare that would be about 17% less than first class and only 5% higher than coach. Few other airline presidents expect one-class service to sweep the industry, as United does, but most of them are eager to streamline their fare systems...
...direction is superb. His blocking saves the opening scene from being a talky fiasco, and whenever the dialogue falls down, his elaborate bits of play prevent complete boredom. The direction of the seance scene, a musical chairs game in the dark, is particularly effective. But skillful director and eager cast are not enough. Even Stanislavski directing Otis Skinner could not have completely overcome such glaring defects in their material...
...cutting down social activities in churches. Says the Rev. Andrew Greeley, study director of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago: "Every indication I get gives me the impression that people are more intensely concerned with what religion means in their lives and more are eager to do something about...