Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year Australia has a bumper wheat crop estimated at 300 million bu. ready for harvesting, and is eager to sell more to Peking. The Hong Kong business community is full of reports that the Australians will offer more liberal credit terms to the Chinese Reds in the hope of undercutting the Canadians, who last year sold $120 million worth of grain to Peking...
...that it is no longer enough to stay as they are. Sir William Haley, editor of the Times, put it this way: 'The mood of Britain is once again energetic, eager, prepared for the next expectant voyage-wherever it may lead...
...competitors, boasting that its editorial staff of 121 includes more newsmen than all of Missouri's radio and television stations to gether employ. But in its excitement over the new campaign's success, the Globe showed that it had not yet lost all faith in the air. Eager to tell St. Louis of the great things in store for newspaper readers, the Globe signed up for 266 radio and TV spots to shout its happy news...
...house persuaded his bank to give him a whopping $42,500 mortgage at the reasonable rate of 5¾%. Chicago banks, whose mortgage rates ran as high as 6% just 18 months ago, are now charging as little as 5¼%. One Brooklyn bank is so eager to shovel out mortgage money that its appraisers cruise out to house sites in telephone-equipped cars so that they can report back faster. Says one San Francisco banker: "I'm dickering for a house loan myself. It's a good time...
...last week Eddy had a companion-handsome, French-born Olivier Coquelin, 32. Coquelin is the manager of a Manhattan cafè society watering spot called Le Club, where Eddy, bedazzled by a "board of governors" that includes Noel Coward, Rex Harrison and the Duke of Bedford, was an eager member. Said the loyal Olivier: "I have come to see zat Eddee does not go to zee dogs...