Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furiously pens helpful memoranda in an often undecipherable scribble, then dispatches them to his colleagues the next day. One of McCormack's first acts after Sam Rayburn's death was to offer to help get Rayburn's staff new jobs. For years, Congressmen of both parties, eager to deliver speeches but frustrated because they could not get recognition from the Chair, knew they could come to McCormack with their problem. His invariable answer: "You just sit by me for a minute, and I'll get the floor for you." The many favors he has done will...
Understandably eager for freer trade are the executives of the many U.S. industries already selling successfully overseas. But less predictably, freer trade has the endorsement, according to soundings taken by TIME correspondents, of many businessmen whose companies are currently suffering from import competition but who are confident they can counterattack effectively if foreign tariff barriers are dropped. Among the generally pro-free trade industries...
Against an eager but incapable team like Dartmouth, of course, this weakness did not matter too much. In fact, the varsity's inability to put the puck in every time it set up a scoring play added a great deal to the enjoyment of the standing-room crowd...
Mayflower is luring not only students-last fall it had 2,400 applicants for 70 places-but also eager foreign helpers. Now on hand are a New Zealand woman teacher of English and French, a young Philadelphia metallurgist who showed up with his wife last fall to teach physics, and a Peace Corps teacher of chemistry and biology. David Schmidt, a Swiss farmer, got so fascinated with Mayflower three years ago that he rented his farm, packed up his wife and four children, now works from sunup to sundown - without pay - making bricks. "When they saw Mr. Schmidt take...
Rogers, 74, curator at Princeton University's Zoology Museum, who has turned out for every Christmas bird census since the first one in 1900. But the vast majority of birders are not professional ornithologists but eager amateurs, who have found birding a challenging and relaxing hobby. Among them are such noted specimens as retired Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Columnist Walter Lippmann, Author Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Alfred Barr, director of collections at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...