Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drivers who have been kept on at the palace in Athens and at various residences since the King's departure. The junta has put no limit on any personal funds the King might want to take out of Greece. For his own part, though, the King seems eager to show that he is living a relatively frugal existence...
Nixon's Net. Thus there was more charisma in his domestic politics than realism in his Realpolltik. Rockefeller was attempting to establish himself as the thoughtful surveyor of the big picture, eager for peace but opposing appeasement, less militant than Nixon, more mature than Robert Kennedy, more flexible and far-sighted than the Johnson Administration...
Though he was assured of victory in this week's Indiana primary-his was the only name on the G.O.P. ballot-Nixon nevertheless was eager to rack up a big vote to prove to the convention delegates that the people were indeed speaking his name. The crowds suggested that they were. At the Gary airport, 5,000 people waved and shouted at him, their voices reverberating in a huge hangar. "Do you want to go down a new road," asked Nixon, "or go down an old road with new faces?" The throng left no doubt that they preferred...
...that he badly needs. Thus a prime topic of conversation during Dubček's visit to Moscow was an unusual Soviet offer of $300 million or more worth of credit in hard currency. Dubček will no doubt gladly take the money, but he is also eager to make sure that the Russians do not revert from the carrot to the stick and cut off the oil and raw-material shipments upon which his country depends. As a hedge against any loss of Soviet oil, for example, he is reportedly negotiating with Iran for millions of tons...
...sexual indifference and the irresistible why-not willingness of the women around him. "Georgene had brought to their affair, like a dowry of virginal lace, this lightness, this guiltlessness." Piet responds not to the excitement but to the wondrous ease of it all, the astonishing luxury of fornication with eager women behind bedroom walls apparently opaque to the fierce eye of his Calvinist...