Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration has been deepening the credibility chasm with a series of maneuvers shamelessly worsening the quibble over a site for preliminary peace talks with Hanoi. In a frenzied propaganda effort calculated to cover Johnson's embarrassing decision to renege on his "anywhere at anytime" pledge, Dean Rusk Thursday affected eager magnanimity by offering ten new sites...
...were caught. Seeing police take a stance of calculated restraint, adults joined in the pillage. Often cops stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
...another sergeant brought me into the waiting room and I waited. People, even enlistees, were very friendly and very eager to talk. There's a kind of community of victims...
...ALWAYS eager to join a battle and turn it into a crusade if he can, McGill has never let the battle-field slip away under his feet. In 1938, when he became executive editor of the Constitution, the Atlanta chapter of the KKK staged a protest parade around the Constitution building, denouncing him. Since then, particularly in times of racial tension, he has received a steady stream of obscene phone calls and occasional loads of garbage dumped on his front lawn...
...scientist to fill a tenured position. A black man could have the background and experience to teach blacks (and whites) here what no presently tenured Faculty member can. And the University should recruit and train black graduate students, thereby increasing the number of young black Faculty members. Expressions of eager intent are no longer sufficient...