Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like an eager candidate for membership in the Union League Club, the President ticked off the names of his chief aides who had come from the business community-Secretaries Hodges, Dillon, McNamara, et al. His speech was studded with assurances of his fond feelings toward private enterprise, and one promise drew a burst of applause: "This administration, therefore, during its term of office-and I repeat this and make it as a flat statement-has no intention of imposing exchange controls, devaluing the dollar, raising trade barriers or choking off our economic recovery...
While most young African nations are critically short of native-born lawyers-newly independent Tanganyika has two, both of whom attended the conference-the meeting in Lagos showed them to be as eager to extend the rule of law as their counterparts anywhere in the world. Said Nigeria's Chief Justice Sir Adetokunbo Ademola: "This is a world conference, not a conference of Western powers. The world is interested in peace, and this is the only way to ensure...
Harvard outshot St. Nick's 36-16. Eager to prove their superiority in some phase of the sport, St. Nicholas outpointed the Crimson in penalty minutes...
...what? In the papers, for one thing. There is many a well-to-do matron who will gladly contribute as much as $10,000 to a charity (plus a program ad for her husband's business) for the privilege of being on the ball committee. This entitles an eager beaveress to be photographed for the society pages with an established society leader at a fashionable restaurant, and may even lead to a mention in a gossip column. The earnest climber who accumulates enough of such credits, like an Eagle Scout with a sash of merit badges, obtains recognition among...
...Africans were just as eager for the church to play a vigorous social role. Said Nigeria's George A. Ademola, M.D., lay leader and son of an African chief: "I don't believe in saving souls imprisoned in miserable bodies...