Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skeptical McNamara, backed by the White House, refused to spend the extra funds. The very next year, in the face of domestic political pressure and continued weaponry development by the Chinese and Russians, the Johnson Administration reluctantly reversed itself. Now the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Melvin Laird seems eager to press ahead at full speed with an ABM system called the Sentinel-despite hesitance elsewhere in the Administration and increasingly stubborn opposition to ABM in Congress...
...nothing came of these informal contacts. Harvard reportedly insisted that Radcliffe make a greater effort to bolster its shaky financial status, and Radcliffe was not over-eager to dissolve into a division of the larger University...
...nothing came of these informal contacts. Harvard reportedly insisted that Radcliffe make a greater effort to bolster its shaky financial status, and Radcliffe was not over-eager to dissolve into a division of the larger University...
...injury-plagued Crimson dropped a tense decision, 57-51, to the Cadets in December and will be eager for revenge. The presence of seven other Ivy teams and Navy will complicate some events, but with the possible exception of Yale, none of them should threaten the Harvard-Army monopoly of the team championship...
...eager people in the Boylston St. office are glad to tell these stories; when they talk about their paper pride spills all over. "We're untouchable," Lewis says. "We won't give advertisers irrelevant publicity simply because they're our advertisers, so we can't have trouble." Mindich interrupts. " Awareness of BAD has spread on its own--we've done virtually no self-promotion." But the real interest of these people is in their future, the future of Boston After Dark--and what lies beyond...