Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to remedy the problem, a group of influential Republican moderates laid plans for the formation of a National Rockefeller for President Committee. Rocky gave the committee his quiet approval, but even so, unless he begins campaigning actively, it is questionable whether many party professionals will be eager to risk Nixon's revenge by supporting...
Trudeau could technically delay elections until the parliamentary term expires in 1970, but he is eager to challenge the opposition Tories, who also have a new leader in Nova Scotia's dour Robert Stanfield, 53. Thus, Trudeau is expected to dissolve Parliament by September and go to the country in an effort to win his own majority and a full five-year term for himself...
AFTER conference, held in late February, agreement seemed near Deborah Batts '69, RUS president, summed up the students' mood when she said, "We are for cooperation, not confrontation." The Trustees, too, seemed eager for a compromise solution...
...nchez's declaration was a shocker on a number of counts. When he took command of the Governor's palace, La Fortaleza, Sánchez was eager to carry on his predecessor's social and economic development programs. He was just as anxious to end the Latino tradition of one-man rule in Puerto Rico. He set out to make the Popular Democratic leadership more popular, more democratic and younger; inevitably, he made enemies...
...Jeff, and thousands of other eager youngsters, it was just as real as action shots of the Viet Nam war on TV. In fact, it was all part of a new U.S. Army exhibit inside Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. The helicopter was grounded, the landscape was a diorama, sound effects were recorded, and the machine gun was electronically rigged so that its light beam made bulbs glow when a direct hit was scored...