Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holworthy, Thayer, and Stoughton Halls responded to the HSA goody man's cry of "Food!" with a tumult of their own last night. Yelling from windows and beaming two blinding spotlights on the salesman, the hungry Yardlings descended on the little red wagon en masse. Five of the eager eaters were relieved of their bursar's cards...
...noirs to their homes." About the only group to escape the widespread condemnation are young pied-noir girls, because 1) they are uncommonly good-looking; 2) being women, they are appreciably less crude and rude than the refugee men; and 3) the wartime climate of Algeria has made them eager for amour...
...Cuban revolution was quite obviously hurting for Yanqui dollars-though a mere $62 million will not go far to repair Cuba's economy. Speculating on very little evidence, some hopeful Washington Castrologists wondered if there might be another reason why Castro seemed eager to negotiate. Was Castro, feeling his control threatened by the Communists around him. shifting to a Khrushchev-style "coexistence" line with the U.S.? Whatever the explanation, the official U.S. reaction to the prisoner offer was no sale. "The U.S. cannot engage in a negotiation like that," said President Kennedy...
...other days. Barth would undoubtedly have hit back at such criticism with a barrage of satire, scorn and scriptural learning. "I was hard then," he says. "Now that I am older, I am softer." This older, mellower Barth seems eager only to get on with the fourth section of Volume IV of Dogmatics. At his stucco house on Basel's Bruderholzallee, day begins around 8, when Barth's wife, or his longtime secretary. Charlotte von Kirschbaum, tiptoes to the phonograph and puts on a record. The music that serves as his alarm clock is always by Wolfgang Amadeus...
Historically eager for self-improvement, Americans have usually welcomed intellectual reformers. But Boorstin, by confusing rather than clarifying the effort to recapture the fading American Dream, has abused their hospitality...