Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard Times. Despite the obvious slippage in Adenauer's power, few of his ambitious rivals are eager to put too much pressure on him or criticize him publicly. A Socialist leader explained his party's hesitancy by saying: "We cannot become known as icon smashers." In every rival's mind is the continued reverence for der Alte displayed by the German people. In a recent EMNID public opinion poll to choose the "World's Most Admired Man," 24% of the West Germans picked Adenauer. Albert Schweitzer came second with 8%, and leaders like Charles de Gaulle...
...nationalism ("We feel close to Lenin," said one official, "because he had Mongolian blood on his mother's side"), which still arouses Russian .suspicion. A member of the Mongolian Communist Central Committee was expelled this year for ultranationalist tendencies. Pride in their country's achievements makes Mongols eager for contact with the rest of the world, and Mongolia has tried hard to establish diplomatic relations with the U.S. On the occasion of Outer Mongolia's admission to the United Nations last year, Washington declared it had "explored the possibility" of exchanging ambassadors with Ulan Bator. The exploration...
...match trick-lighting a match and holding it until it burns their fingers, thus distracting the audience's attention from another actor. The geometries of their love affairs become hopelessly complicated, and morale is chewed up by cliques, gossip, and fierce little jealousies. Meanwhile, the washed and eager faces out front are sitting on upholstery that may be wearing out, but is still worth about $9.60 a square foot. After hearing of this great musical for months and months, they have finally taken out a second mortgage and bought tickets, and what do they...
...eager students will descend CRIMSON building, 14 Plympton St., 10 p.m. this evening. An unidentified denied that they were coming because of rumors that Coke, unobtainable in this area, would served. In fact, he revealed...
Since the Soc Rel Department is also eager to have as many people as possible get degrees with Honors, one almost suspects that the Department's rules for concentration are designed to coax people into Honors by setting complicated regulations for non-Honors students. Only recently, for instance, the department eliminated distribution and concentration requirements for Honors candidates but retained them for others, so that the non-Honors student still has to worry about choosing the proper number of "P" and "S" courses and taking acceptable courses outside...