Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether or not his enthusiasm and personal qualities will elect him despite the obstacles posed by his eager, but unsure organization is hard to tell. The debates do not seem to have given him the impetus he needs, yet Lodge expects that his campaign workers will from the nucleus of a new GOP in this state, even with the expected results in November...
...stump only a few times a week, holds no press conferences, rarely mentions Di Salle. refuses to face him in debate. Di Salle, on the other hand, has stumped every one of the state's 88 counties, visited some 130 towns he had never seen before, and is eager to draw Rhodes into any sort of head-on clash. Playing the role of challenger rather than incumbent, he has listed 32 questions that he wants Rhodes to answer. Example: "Will you support public-school education at existing state levels, lower levels, or higher levels?" Complains Di Salle: "Ordinarily...
Long-divided Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans and right-wing Independents, who had all opposed De Gaulle for his policy on Europe and on defense, and particularly for whittling away parliamentary prerogatives, were now in eager coalition. They were attacking the stablest government that France has had in this century, having themselves provided very nearly the worst; many of De Gaulle's opponents had served as revolving-door Premiers in the disastrous Fourth Republic-Antoine Pinay for nine months, Pierre Mendes-France for eight months, Pierre Pflimlin for 17 days...
...MARRIED DEACONATE. In the early church, much administrative, clerical and charitable work was handled by deacons rather than priests. Missionary bishops, who are short of clergy, are eager to see the deaconate restored to use. Members of this order of clergy would be allowed to marry and hold down fulltime jobs, could keep the faith alive in priest-poor dioceses by baptizing, teaching catechism, conducting some services, such as benediction. They would have the privilege of distributing Communion, but could not celebrate Mass or hear confessions...
...Peculiar Group." In an effort to duck taxes, he turned to building and refurbishing cargo ships, an operation which the West German government, eager to restore its war-torn merchant marine, made completely tax deductible. Oldtime Hamburg shipping men scornfully dubbed Oetker's armada the "baking powder fleet," but through astute management his fleet of 67 tankers and freighters has kept busy without resorting-as some German shipping companies have-to running Soviet-bloc cargoes for Castro. Characteristically, Oetker got into the insurance business to pare his premiums, built his Condor companies into one of Germany's biggest...