Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their spice on stout voices singing the lyrics alternately. As the lyrics interweave, words overlap and innocent verses yield bright fruit: a catch that begins "He tickled her fancy and told her his tale" is sure to come out "And he fancy-tickled her tail." Jonathan Swift was an eager catch lyricist, but the biggest tease of all was Henry Purcell, the saintly master of the High Church hymn. After hours, Purcell forsook cantatas in favor of catches and "hockets"-a trick of song in which a voice may boldly interject one word of a verse. In Purcell...
...leadership, but in view of the immense gains of creeping mergerism between Harvard and Radcliffe in the past two decades there is reason for concern. Radcliffe contains numerous athletic enthusiasts. Some girls, it is true, restrict their activities to pasting football programs all over their walls, but others are eager participants. Co-ed volleyball is gaining in popularity, and this year the 'Cliffe produced a hockey team. Its record against even such mediocre competition as the Lampoon was dismal, but we suspect that as the girls gain experience they will improve. Mixed softball is now an established tradition...
Britain needed urgently to expand its markets and broaden its shaky financial base. Once inside Europe, British industry was confident that it could substantially boost exports to the Six. It also anticipated a heavy influx of investment capital from U.S. and other foreign companies eager to have a British toehold in the Common Market. If Britain were finally excluded from Europe, investment would continue to dwindle and Britain might be forced as a result to make drastic cuts in its living standards. Meanwhile, it may either retreat behind high tariff walls or else return to its classic ideal of free...
...Army General Lyman Lemnitzer this month: "I did not want to stay on the fringes of the military. You need the stimulation of a fresh challenge." Fresh challenges are sure to come at Owens-Corning (1961 earnings: $14,300,000 on sales of $226,900,000), which is eager to expand its overseas operations, previously limited to minority interests in seven overseas companies. Owens-Corning's next major international move: the opening next month of a branch office in Brussels, which the company hopes will eventually grow into a wholly owned subsidiary with its own Fiberglas plant in Europe...
...Eternal Feminine. With that, the historic meeting ended and everyone departed, leaving the Mona Lisa with Secret Service men and a pair of Marine guards. Next day the gallery doors opened to a rush of citizens eager to see the great painting. Soon, from Winston-Salem, N.C., came 36 art lovers who had chartered a plane to Washington and had a representation of the Mona Lisa painted on the fuselage. In Memphis and French Camp, Miss., in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in New Orleans and New London, Conn., other people made plans for pilgrimages...