Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state policemen with steel helmets, gas masks and clubs were deployed around the university campus. A hefty force of sheriffs, deputies and policemen waited at the railroad bridge separating the campus from the town. Even more dangerous-looking were the uninvited strangers who had swarmed in from the backlands, eager to join in a fight. After looking over all those swinging clubs and restless fists, a Justice Department observer in Oxford telephoned Bobby Kennedy in Washington and warned him that the oncoming force of marshals was obviously insufficient to force its way without a fierce battle. "I'll call...
...former black marketeer with many contacts in East Berlin, he got into the tunnel business for almost altruistic reasons-he wanted to help East Berlin friends to escape. While making inquiries about tools and equipment, Der Dicke made the happy discovery that hundreds of West Berlin university students were eager to help him for nothing. On his very first try, he lined up three engineering students who also had friends wishing to escape to the West. Once they had broken through to East Berlin, Der Dicke got his own friends out at a charge of about $250 per head...
Teddy could hardly have cared less about the party bosses. To whip up strength, he created his own organization of eager young pros and amateurs. Teddy's first job was to win the party's endorsement at the convention in June. He held out the promise of some postmaster-ships. But his real appeal was to those who simply wanted to ride with a winner. Teddy thought like a winner, talked like a winner, and acted like a winner. He urged delegates to vote for him and thereby "do yourself a favor." The delegates did, and the convention...
...major competitor. But it was the pell-mell postwar growth of heavy industry and construction in Australia that gave B.H.P. its biggest forward push. With all Australia virtually its private preserve, the company more than doubled its output in a decade. Equity capital flowed in for the asking as eager Australian investors flocked to oversubscribe new stock issues...
...Gunther managed to examine every city with a population greater than 200,000, but some were more receptive than others. Though he was invited in Texas to address a joint session of the legislature, in Tennessee Senator Kenneth McKellar threw him out of his office. Gunther found Americans more eager to be interviewed than other peoples, but he also found them more politically naive. Inside U. S. A. was perhaps the least successful of his books...