Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karen tribesmen as "warlike" is not accurate. My father, grandfather and great-grandfather spent their lives working with the Karen people in the Tharrawaddy and Toungoo hills, and I played with the Karen children and spoke their language during my childhood in Burma. We found the Karens cooperative, very eager to learn and loyal. Their desire to improve themselves and their successes aroused the jealousies of the Burmese who were content to live off the lush plains of the Irrawaddy River delta. EDWARD F. MARSHALL Cohasset, Mass...
Hollywood is now so eager to experiment with young and untried directors and writers that some older, proven film makers are complaining about lack of work. Director Mark Rydell-one of a host of refugees from television -got the chance to do The Fox when a studio executive saw a segment of / Spy that impressed him. Francis Ford Coppola, 28, is a precocious graduate of the nudie industry who is now doing Finian's Rainbow j for Warner Bros. Another untried talIent is Faye Dunaway's fianceé, Jerry | Schatzberg, 40, a still photographer of women...
...soon getting on famously with both. The reputed intellectual lightweight, who was once expelled by Harvard because of hanky-panky on an examination, turned out to be a glutton for legislative homework. The big (6 ft. 2 in.), brown-haired freshman proved agreeably reticent on the floor and eager to develop good working relationships with such crusty barons as Mississippi's James Eastland, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In two years, Kennedy was chairman of Judiciary's Special Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees...
Turns on the Bollard. The officers themselves-mostly reservists eager to return to civilian life-were "living in extreme messiness," and they barely deigned to say "Aye, aye, sir." Though the Vance had won an E for engineering excellence and performed commendably on lonely, months-long patrols in the northern Pacific, she seemed a slack ship to Arnheiter's eye, and only "a taut ship is a happy ship." Arnheiter was up-taut himself: a Naval Academy "ring-knocker" he was passed over once for lieutenant and at 40 was one of the oldest Annapolis men of his rank...
...eager was Arnheiter to remain "on the line" in the South China Sea that he filed false spare-parts reports, claiming to have fewer aboard than he did so that he would not have to share them with other destroyers, and thus risk having to go back to port to replenish. That, too, violated Navy Regs. On patrol duty, he was combative to a fault. In hopes of locating Communist shore batteries, Arnheiter sent the speedboat close inshore to draw their fire, meanwhile bringing the Vance and her 3-in. guns into the largely uncharted shoal waters off the coast...