Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applause, a standing ovation from the Belmont housewives and the kids and the old men and--yes--some of the Harvards and Cliffies. Not one of those 40 minute -- standing ovations you get at West Point or the Naval Academy, but a nice standing ovation--as Sayre was eager to point out later...
Many veniremen are obviously eager to be among the twelve jurors who will sit in judgment on Richard Speck, 25, the adrift seaman who is accused of murdering eight student nurses in Chicago last July. A middle-aged pastry cook from Peoria, 111., assured a quizzical prosecutor, "I've not discussed the case nor heard anything about it on the radio. I'd be fair, all right." Yet when Speck's court-appointed attorney, Gerald Getty, asked her if she thought she could honestly find Speck innocent, she shook her head and replied, "No, it was taking...
...happened, Rinfret's relations with Edie soured along with his own views of the U.S. economy. Three months ago, Rinfret left Edie amid rumors of an abrasive management struggle. Now head of a new partnership, Rinfret-Boston Associates, he denies the strife stories, says he was simply eager to "have my own operation...
...colleges which want international representation in their student bodies, and the needs of the emerging African nations intent on training students in a limited number of specific technical fields like engineering, agriculture, or animal husbandry. "We keep asking ourselves: Who is our master?" Moll says, "the American colleges eager to educate Africans in a variety of disciplines, or the Africans in a variety of disciplines, or the African nations insisting on specialized technology...
...goodly portion of Africans studying here find Americans outgoing and eager to help, but sometimes in a gnawingly superficial way. One Ivy League student analyzed our reaction this way: "The Americans are friendly and the most accommodating group you'll ever meet. But, this willingness to associate with others--a legacy of their informality -- lacks African warmth and European depth. The African looks for progressive personal understanding, which in many cases means asking too much...