Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the U.S. imperialists, who were eager to help the French colonialists, did not venture directly to intervene in the war in Viet Nam? They did not do so because they knew that if they gave the French armed assistance, Viet Nam would receive the same kind of assistance from China, the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries, and that the fighting could develop into a world war. The outcome of the war is known-North Viet...
...Stupid to Worry. If so, the warning was wasted. Too dim-witted to be alarmed, the waterborne Belchen paid no attention to the eager marksmen closing in for the kill. At a range of less than 20 yds., the hunters opened fire. The few Belchen that tried to escape were blasted out of the sky or cut down before they could finish their flailing, loonlike takeoff. The rest of the birds were slaughtered where they sat. Boat oars were used to administer the coup de grâce. Explained one hunter: "If we waited for them to get into...
...curved line gradually disappeared from Mondrian's paintings, and his verticals and horizontals inevitably created rectangles. Eager to scourge any suggestion of form from his work, Mondrian insisted that these were not rectangles, for in his definition a rectangle could exist only beside another form that contrasted with it. He argued, for example, that a rectangle placed next to a circle would take on an individual identity; when compared only with other rectangles it loses its individuality and becomes a universal. Mondrian was determined to destroy everything that shackled his painting to outer appearances or confused the face...
Love & Loathing. Houseman's other job is artistic director of Los Angeles' three-year-old Theater Group, which, helped by a Ford Foundation grant and run by the adult education branch of U.C.L.A., presents first-rate stage productions, drawing from an eager pool of movie and television actors. Anxious to get away from the flabby, fragmented routine of working on motion pictures or taping TV shows, the actors are willing to work for Equity minimum just to submit themselves to the sterner discipline of the stage. Robert Ryan starred in the group's Sodom and Gomorrah, Nina...
...charge that great banking power is being concentrated in a few hands to the detriment of business and the public, the Justice Department has been particularly eager to prevent several proposed bank mergers. In Chicago and New York City, Bobby Kennedy's trustbusters have puffed into courts in last-minute and futile attempts to block such mergers. Despite their defeats, trustbusters had high hopes of winning a meticulously prepared suit against a Philadelphia bank merger. That merger would create the city's biggest bank, linking the Philadelphia National (now second largest with assets of $1.2 billion...