Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear that by holding the plane the Russians could scuttle talks with the U.S. On the other hand, their release of 214 Americans for combat would invite a propaganda cudgeling from China, ever eager to berate Moscow for betraying its allies in Hanoi. In the end, both sides displayed an encouragingly sophisticated, fresh approach to defusing the danger. Next day, Thompson was handed a curt protest note. Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet...
Gladys Roberts, in her own low-keyed way, was supervising the Wallace Girls--most of whom were volunteer women from Greater Boston. The Wallace Girls wore appropriate banners and boaters and paraded up and down the aisles soliciting funds, selling Wallace neckties, and handling out little cards. They were eager to please. Occasionally one fo them would come running back to Gladys Roberts and say "None of the people in my row wanted to give. But I asked them anyway, just for the fun of it. Was that all right?" Of course, it was all right...
...could have remained active as long as health and spirit lasted. Mr. Justice Holmes was writing lucid decisions in his 90s; Justice Hugo Black shows few signs of faltering at 82. Warren apparently wanted to retire while his physical and mental abilities were still keen. Moreover, he was eager to enable President Johnson, a personal friend, to name a new Chief Justice who would follow in the liberal, activist tradition...
...ghettos' most urgent need. But more and more museum curators are eager to prove that it does have a role to play in the blighted areas of their cities. They are all too aware that museums on Sundays are filled almost exclusively with affluent whites; although black and Spanish-speaking schoolchildren may be guided through for a fleeting visit by their teachers, few return with their parents, and still fewer poor adults come in alone. To open their eyes, white administrators are now taking art to the ghettos with branch museums or art-mobiles. Often, they find whole streets...
...fantastic days of the Army-McCarthy hearings, they would sit head-to-head in the Senate caucus room, the brooding, heavy-browed Senator and the soft-cheeked, puffy-eyed young lawyer, exchanging eager whispers or concerned glances. Now and again the Senator would raise a rasping voice to plead a "point of order." Now and again the young counsel would scuttle through his papers for a sharp question or a deft answer...