Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good job had been done raising living standards, although they may be false standards to the extent that they rely heavily on massive U.S. aid.'' He also called on those familiar TIME cover faces, Generalissimo and Madame Chiang. He found the generalissimo fit, energetic and gracious, and eager to hear about the fluctuations of U.N. sentiment on Red China...
After Washington came New York, eager to top the capital's welcome. Glenn himself was awed by the tumultuous Broadway parade as his motorcade inched through 4,000,000 roaring, swarming New Yorkers in a blizzard of ticker tape-3,474 tons of paper that buried Douglas MacArthur's 1951 record downfall of 3,249 tons. There was the inescapable luncheon at the Waldorf with hours of zephyrous speeches, and at the U.N. Glenn and his fellow astronauts chatted with the diplomats over champagne. Between the official rounds, the Glenn family shed their shoes in their Waldorf suite...
...Committee counsel, eager to dispel the picture of HUAC given by its critics, beams as he shows the secretaries to the visitor. With a chuckle, he asks him, "We're not ogres...
...asked why they were going to Washington, the answer was almost invariably "We have to do something." What, they do not know. But the prospect of living life under the threat of a nuclear war is disquieting for restless and eager youth...
Most Vietnamese officers are eager to absorb U.S. techniques and combat tactics, and on the military level, U.S. suggestions and Vietnamese orders mesh efficiently. In politics, the situation is more difficult. Last week a government plane flew over Red-held territory to drop prop aganda leaflets bearing Diem's New Year's message to his people. The plane crashed, killing eight Americans and two Vietnamese. Another plane was scheduled to take off later and scatter more leaflets, this .time bearing a good-will message from President John Kennedy. Both sets of leaflets could not be dropped from...