Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton has lost only once this season to Navy. In addition to beating Princeton, Navy also handed the Crimson its only loss of the season. Penn State which lost possession of the Crown for the first time in four years last season will be especially eager to regain its lost title...
Seemighly eager to put the Middies behind them as quickly as possible. Harvard captured four of its five singles victories in straight sets, then, with the match cliched, demolished its hosts in three ten-game doubles matches...
...every school is eager for such a pragmatic approach. Says Assistant History Professor John Willis, a member of the faculty-student committee now making final plans for an Afro-American studies department at the University of Wisconsin: "Students have asked for an action-oriented program while serious academicians want a department oriented toward scholarship." Though Willis himself is black, he goes along with the professors because "I'm an academic Tom-I can see the quality angle...
...capture a share of the U.S. market.) Her book-of-the-month club has just come out with its second selection, Helga and Bernd Demonstrate 100 Love Positions. The $4.95 book is illustrated with photographs of models clothed in tights. On top of a 50,000-copy advance sale, eager customers bought 70,000 copies when the book reached Beate's shelves last week...
Unabashed Salesmanship. Beate, who flew fighter planes from the factory to the front for the Luftwaffe during World War II, started her business soon after Germany's defeat. Shrewdly realizing that Germans were eager to avoid having children because of food and housing shortages, she began cribbing contraceptive data from a medical tome and selling the information by mail. Her success is based on thorough organization and unabashed salesmanship. Uhse sales clerks, for example, are all trained to casually enunciate such words as penis and orgasm without flinching...