Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learning the lesson--being told that we had unwittingly adopted the habits of authority and paternalism--only complicated our relations with Shaw students. We found ourselves caught in a maze of psychological dilemmas created simply by our being there, by our having to interact with the students. Eager to drop our roles as White Liberals, we found it difficult not to be liberal and impossible not to be White...
Coach Bill McCurdy's team isn't loafing now, however. While the baseball team practices below in Briggs Cage, eager track men train in informal workouts on the balcony boards...
Seven oil-exploration contracts have been awarded to eager bidders, among them the U.S.'s Continental and Union Oil companies. Surveying for copper, Freeport Sulphur Co. recently found high-grade (4%) ore, and may invest up to $100 million to exploit it. International Nickel just got the go-ahead to start a $1,500,000 survey of nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), and may invest $100 million. Bethlehem Steel has expressed interest in tin deposits, Boise Cascade in logging concessions. ITT agreed to build a satellite relay station near Djakarta at a cost...
Kaysen is eager to take full advantage of the place that made Albert Einstein exclaim, "Ah, Heaven!" when he first arrived. But times have changed since Einstein's day, and Kaysen has had to spend much of his time raising money to support the Institute's roughly 200 permanent and visiting members...
...there is to be progress in Haiti, it will have to come through private initiative; for the Haitian government has no interest in change, and Washington, although genuinely eager to help, has been unable to deal with the methods of development...