Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordering schools closed for the children's "safety." Fully 53,000 of New York's 57,000 teachers stayed away from classes. Ironically, the only schools operating normally were those of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, where Rhody McCoy, the district's cool Negro administrator, had recruited an eager group of new young teachers. Most were white...
...difficult demand by Hanoi. The North Vietnamese might well, for example, insist that since the U.S. and North Viet Nam had finished the pressing business between them, the U.S. could now go talk to the National Liberation Front about the rest of the war. That the U.S. is not eager to do: the Front controls neither infiltration nor force levels nor the Demilitarized Zone nor the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Hanoi holds the key to all of those. And negotiations with the N.L.F. would create major problems for the South Vietnamese government...
Trade Without Treaty. Siberian development is only part of the broadening trade between Japanese eager to export consumer goods and know-how and Russians avid for capital and technical advice. Japan's trade with Russia doubled last year to $610 million and reached $500 million for the first seven months of this year. Not even the fact that the two nations, which dispute ownership of small islands lying between northernmost Japan and the Russian-held Kuriles, have still not signed a World War II peace treaty seems to slow down the economic get-together. One reason for this...
...million) and become a director of Hamilton Life Insurance Co. Though his first love was politics ("I thought the greatest thing in the world would be to be a U.S. Congressman"), Barish decided to concentrate first on making money. He took aim at a hitherto overlooked market: foreign investors eager to put funds into the U.S. but imbued with a traditional preference for real estate rather than stocks and bonds...
Antonio, a poor young man from a village near Venice, inherits a pittance and decides that it is time to fall in love. He picks Maria, a pretty, aloof-looking virgin. She turns out to be as eager to fall in love as he is, but she is far more direct and decisive. Antonio is troubled: How could the pure madonna of his fantasy tolerate his touching her? He is still trying to come to terms with this conundrum when Maria's rich parents callously separate the lovers. Antonio suffers extravagantly, even as he falls into the arms...