Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speakers chairman James Roosevelt '68 said that the civil liberties group is eager to seek court action and that both CLUM chairman Howard S. Whitside and Young Dem advisor Robert G. McCloskey '46 think the club has a good chance to win if they decide...
...When things are going badly at the Bourse," explains Paris Auctioneer Philippe Rheims, "business is booming at the Hotel Drouot," France's largest auction house. Buyers are holding on to what they have and are eager to buy more. Consequently, things that would have been passed up by connoisseurs a decade ago are now fetching some farfetched prices. Pre-Raphaelite drawings, early Americana and Louis XIII furniture have increased over last season's record-smashing pace. Peregrine Pollen, president of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet, is still stunned that a 16th century bronze brought...
...Ours is the greatest newspaper reading population in the world;...Every great and startling crime is paraded in their columns, with all the minuteness of detail that an eager competitor for public favor can supply.... In the case of a particularly audacious crime that has been widely discussed it is utterly impossible that any man of common intelligence, and not wholly secluded from society, should be found, who had not formed an opinion...
...Reagan now regards as his "early white-eyed liberal daze." Reagan became furious at Murphy, labeled him "an archreactionary." But Murphy persisted and, alter Reagan recognized what was happening, the pair patched up their differences. Now Murphy, haying led the way from show biz to public office, is an eager backer of Reagan's cause...
...Minister Maurice Couve de Murville sat deep in thought, his wavy white head bowed over the text of the speech he was about to deliver to the United Nations General Assembly. Behind him, Russian U.N. Representative Nikolai Fedorenko and his French opposite number, Roger Sey-doux, were engaged in eager conversation. As Couve read on, the two men behind him suddenly smiled and raised their hands-thumb to forefinger-in the universal gesture of happy agreement. Then Couve rose to demand that the U.S. make a "new move" to end the war in Viet...