Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lacerated Brow. Yet Rockefeller's initial reaction was to maintain his aloof stance. Soon after arriving in Washington, he went to his 35-acre estate on Foxhall Road for a conference with his brother, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas, and Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Agnew was eager to line up specific commitments from as many of the Republican Governors as possible, to create a draft, in effect, from that powerful group. Rockefeller and George Hinman, his chief political aide, froze the idea at once. Agnew, who had come to Washington saying it was time to stand...
...political aristocrats, OEO Boss Sargent Shriver and Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, were interested in the Governor's chair that Democrat Otto Kerner is relinquishing this year. Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72. And both were anathema to Daley's party regulars...
...bothers to act in one of these things, but Paterson and Clark ham it up nicely throughout, Roger Kozol as Boris a little more nicely, and David Foster (Kate's irremediably ugly Nanny) best of all. Kate herself (Frank Reece) pants well and is contagiously eager, though a singer...
...plan was a significant improvement over the old system of 18 required courses and 6 limited electives. Students were understandably eager to have this "12-12" plan approved by the Faculty. Feeling that it had to maintain "minimum uniform standards" in the department, the Faculty passed a slightly more restrictive 14-required, 10-elective plan, touching off the wave of student protest...
Eberhart's manner is thoroughly boyish, eager, self-confident. He makes no attempt to suppress his enthusiasm or the pleasure with which he remembers all the "adventures...