Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governors who took office this year, none was more eager to get going than Michigan's John Swainson. But by last week, like many another freshman Governor across the U.S., Democrat Swainson, 35, had discovered that campaign saying was a far cry from in-office doing...
Like everyone else, students crave clear signs of their worth, signs which are both self-reassuring and impressive to others. In college, such signs primarily take the form of grades, Averages are calculated and records kept. For eager parents, over-worked teachers, curious friends, even for the student himself, these grades are the measure of his success--and in senior year, the record is sent off to fellowship committees and prospective employers. According to its authoritative testimony, parents praise or scold, committees grant or withhold, so that even if grades served only as a report to others, the record would...
...other side of the coin untarnished. "True, they enter College at a time when family and University budgets are severely restricted to essentials. But today, as freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such an atmosphere here is well worth the small sou of temporary financial restriction...
Wilcox reported a "strong" response to last Saturday's rumors that 518 of the accepted applicants had refused admission. Eager parents, high school guidance counselors, and even one Faculty member called the Office in hopes of obtaining admission for previously rejected candidates...
...speeches, many people--mostly Negro women, both old and young--lined up to shake hands with Perkins. One Negro woman said to him, "I've seen it on television and read it in the papers, but it's nothing like hearing it first hand." And nearly all were eager just to touch him and to say, "I wish you luck . . . we'll be behind...