Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force, and that is within its exclusive competence and nobody else's." In fact, Zorin harped so much on Peking's "right" to wage a shooting war that he plainly did his argument more harm than good, and some listeners began to wonder if Russia were really eager to have Red China seated. At any rate, Zorin's intemperate approach made the U.S.'s reply all the more convincing...
...CRIMSON threw wide its doors last night, and many eager candidates entered take a stand for academic abandon. Tonight at 7:30 p.m. the CRIMSON will hold a repeat performance in the building at 14 Plympton St., for all those potential journalists, especially "Cliffies, who forgot about last night's session...
...Either these objects were contaminated in a most remarkable way soon after they arrived on earth, or else organisms have been transmitted from outside the earth's atmosphere." But Physicist Edward Fireman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge points out that carbonaceous chondrites are porous and notoriously eager to absorb moisture, including organism-bearing sweat from the hands of people who touch them. He suspects that during the long years that the two meteorites have been on earth they had many opportunities to take earthly life into their crevices. He refuses to believe that the Claus-Nagy "organized...
...Province, an area of the eastern Congo lightly controlled by local authorities and protected only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were willing to listen to any rumor that came along...
When the applause thunders at the end of a Berlin Philharmonic concert, Conductor Herbert von Karajan is not eager to step to the podium. Instead, he prefers to stand among the strings, his head bowed, a faint smile on his face, indicating by an occasional gesture of his hand that the credit belongs to the men of his orchestra. The applause has thundered almost continuously for the Philharmonic during the four-week U.S.-Canadian tour that ends this week, and few who recall the Philharmonic's visit to the U.S. six years ago are deceived by Von Karajan...