Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again and again he stressed the point that others must share in the task: "It may be that the U.S. in past years has seemed too eager to assume responsibility. One sometimes thinks that people have come to expect that everywhere disorder manifests itself, or wherever Communism rears its head there will be an American on hand to put down the disorder, resist the Communists and generally put things right...Our eagerness is not that great...The task is how to assume responsibility without arrogating responsibility. The myth of American omnipotence is a myth. The task of protecting liberty...
Assuming that there are no new complications in his personal life, Rocky still seems a cinch for re-election next year as Governor-a prerequisite to the 1964 nomination. So far, few candidates of either party have seemed eager to test him for Governor. But last week two-term U.S. Representative Samuel S. (for Studdiford) Stratton, 45, a lean, attractive Democrat from upstate Schenectady, announced that he would try for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. In the past, Stratton has done handsomely in generally Republican territory-to the point that the 1961 Republican-controlled legislature gerrymandered him out of his district...
...feeling grew between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and Communist intriguing spread throughout the hemisphere, Constantine Oumansky, a schemer and conniver, took over. Then, in the critical years of World War II, when Russia desperately needed U.S. help, grandfatherly Maxim Litvinov became ambassador. He was pro-Western, cooperative and eager to please-as befitted the envoy of an embattled ally. But as the tide of victory turned, Litvinov was supplanted by the dour Andrei Gromyko, and as the cold war worsened, Gromyko and his successors were progressively frosty...
...Algerian question both menaces and ensures the stability of De Gaulle's regime. Such old pols as Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet and ex-President Vincent Auriol are eager to take over control of the state-but not until the Algerian time bomb has either exploded under De Gaulle or been defused...
There is no doubt that the new combinations of the first two lines are a mark of Cooney Weiland's great ingenuity. Last night, though irritated by Northeastern's eager sophomores, they were a delight to watch. They fed passes to each other all over the place and worked as good integrated units...