Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until now, the British hoped that Feisal could supply the troops to defend the territory once the tommies pull out. But Feisal, who is already supporting anti-Nasser forces in Yemen, is hardly eager for another confrontation with Nasser-whose air force last week bombed the Saudi town of Najran, near the Yemeni frontier, for the third time this year. The British may be getting the point. Last week British Foreign Secretary George Brown appeared in Parliament with a first hint that Britain might at least consider staying on in Aden for a while. It was still the government...
...Press have no idea who the President and Fellows will select as his successor. Another endless policy debate inside the Press is the question of paperbacks. It has long been the Press's policy to sell paperback rights to other publishers more able to distribute them and eager to pay good advances and royalties, contrary to other university Presses. Harvard's main reason for avoiding the lucrative paperback market is that it doesn't have a large enough staff to handle the extra burden. But future expansion may change that...
...great!" crowed Deputy Commissioner General Robert F. Shaw. For the real reason behind most of Expo's first-week foul-ups was the magnitude of its success. No one had come even close to gauging the fair's capacity for drawing crowds. Indeed, so big and so eager were the early Expo hordes that they did not spin the turnstiles far enough to allow carbon brushes to make the contacts necessary to send electrical impulses to the computers Counting attendance. At one point, officials had to send people down to "eyeball" the entrants. Because of the tangle...
...causes of the downtrend and ready to accept the worst. It therefore came as old hat that such past record setters as Du Pont, Caterpillar, Union Carbide, and Safeway Stores reported earnings slides. After six years of record-high dividend checks, stockholders appeared fat, friendly and eager to be entertained by the corporate hierarchy...
...market, one problem must be solved that not even Wells, Rich, Greene cares to make light of. Without a converter that costs $50, the longer size does not fit into 900 000 vending machines, from which 17% of all cigarettes are sold. Vending-machine owners so far are not eager to spend on conversions until they are certain the 100s are not a fast-burning...