Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a modern university protester, this was the golden age of education. The essential debate between Lernfreiheit, student freedom, and the Anglo-Saxon tradition that the college stood in loco parentis, was first articulated in Germany in the late 18th century, and later drew some 9,000 American students eager to endorse the new freedom. The issue is still being fought on American campuses...
...proposals fell far short of the Sikh goals, and cynics among the Sant's followers noted that he had seemed overly eager to escape martyrdom. The whole deal, they suggested, was prearranged. But whether it was or not, Indira was clearly the winner. Lately she has been showing a tendency to buckle under public protest involving everything from cow slaughter to government control of gold merchants. This time she showed that she can also stand firm-at least until after next month's elections...
When Premier Suleyman Demirel, 42, swept to power 14 months ago, his victory was credited largely to Turkey's growing disdain for the eager flirtation with Russia carried on by his chief opponent, foxy former Premier Ismet Inönü, 83. In recent months, however, Demirel has begun some mild flirting of his own. He has received Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev, sent official delegations to Poland, Russia and Albania. Last week Demirel welcomed his biggest Communist visitor yet: Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, the first Russian Premier ever to visit Turkey...
...Administration, for being slow in using another of its regulatory tools - the money supply - and later on for overusing it. Despite their waning hopes that Johnson would raise taxes, the Fed's governors kept rapidly increasing the supply of money during the first part of 1966. Businessmen, eager to expand their overworked plants, hired more employees and built inventories, went on a borrowing spree and were willing to pay a premium price for money. Loans to business - which usually flatten out during the first half - actually jumped by $7.5 billion, or almost...
...labeled, the disorder usually starts with a ringing in the ears (tinnitus), followed by impaired hearing, spells of dizziness accompanied by unbearable nausea, and severe vomiting. Meniere's, named for French Physician Prosper Meniere (1799-1862) who first described it, is so distressing that doctors are eager to try anything that will give their patients a measure of relief. Some get help from drugs, including histamine solutions, which have to be infused into a vein; others are subjected to drastic surgical procedures...