Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time during the brief debate was a suggestion made to cut the appropriation on a major point. Since the Senate is virtually certain to approve the bill in much the same form, it is perfectly plain that the 87th Congress is ready, willing and eager to give President Kennedy whatever he thinks he needs for the military defense of the U.S. and the free world...
...medicine matches any in the world and tops most-a fact that, wholesomely enough, leaves U.S. doctors eager to make it even better. To improve the distribution of good treatment, the organization of medicine is in a state of headlong change, from stressing the general practitioner and his elastic fee to stressing group practice by specialists with most costs prepaid. Last week the American Medical Association, a group not prone to accept change gladly, acknowledged the trend by installing as president a group-practice specialist who says that "medicine cannot be blind to social change...
...Counsel. Eichmann was so eager that he often gave Servatius directions, prodding his counsel to ask him questions. On one occasion Eichmann was so wrapped up in his notes and papers that Judge Landau coldly had to remind him to stand when addressed by the court. Eichmann's face flushed with momentary anger as he looked up; then, realizing where he was, he jumped up apologizing...
...traditional stodginess of banks would have made all this impossible 20 years ago, but U.S. corporations are now established patrons of modern art. Chase Manhattan's art-collecting president, David Rockefeller, found an eager ally in the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It was obvious from the start that the bank would need large paintings for its wall space, which meant for the most part picking abstractions. The art committee was well suited to that task. Its members, aside from SOM Chief Designer Gordon Bunshaft, an avid collector himself, were Alfred Barr Jr. and Dorothy Miller of Manhattan...
...Eager to see and experience the world he lives in, Barry Goldwater is almost too versatile to be true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...