Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Chinese Asian Tito. This may be fantasy. Still, U.S. intervention may have helped to draw the Chinese into the war. The material aid that Peking has furnished Hanoi must give the Chinese a measure of control over North Viet Nam. There is no sign yet that Hanoi is eager to end the war or settle it in Paris, but presumably the Chinese are in a position to put further pressure on Ho Chi Minh to remain adamant...
...virtuosos, though, whom business and law firms are most eager to recruit. They go to unprecedented lengths to court prospects, flying them to the home office, spelling out working conditions in alluring detail. Even if they are due to be drafted or are members of ROTC with a two-year service commitment, they are offered jobs. Sought-after students are in the habit of saying not "I was interviewed" but "I interviewed"-and indeed they did. They can command salaries of $10,000 in the big corporations, $15,000 with Wall Street law firms...
...accompanied by glowing visual abstractions that he dubs Psychedelevision in Color. Closer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey than to Walt Disney's Fantasia, it is the sort of work that might well fill the extra channels on the cable antenna systems of the future. Eager to "take the waste out of the wasteland," Thomas Tadlock, 28, spent two years and a patron's $10,000 to create his Archetron. The result is a studio-size console, with 46 knobs and controls and four screens, that scrambles the signals of standard programming to produce...
...irreconcilable foes last week made strong political comebacks. The two-V. K. Krishna Menon and S. K. Patil-won smashing victories in by-elections to the Lok Sabha, India's House of Commons. Both seem eager to renew old battles, with Menon rallying the Indian left and Patil the Indian right...
...problem is that there are just not that many people who are eager enough to go out to play some semi-organized sport. Mike Sherman, athletic secretary of champion Greenough, suggested that proctors ought to show more concern with the program and encourage people to participate, as well as helping out the athletic secretaries. A big factor, Sherman said, was the persistence of the athletic secretary. In Sherman's case, this persistence borders on fanaticism, and a colleague of his called him "the Vince Lombardi of freshman intramurals." Way to go, Mike...