Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brothers. Not all the consortiums represent agreements among equals. In many cases, a major university will act as a big brother to smaller schools eager to upgrade their teaching capacity. The huge University of Texas (enrollment: 24,778) is the major partner in 60 consortiums, including one that provides for student and faculty exchange with its tiny neighbor, Huston-Tillotson College (615 students). The University of Pennsylvania opens its doors to students from eleven smaller colleges; they earn a Penn engineering degree along with the B.A. from their own schools in a five-year plan...
...White House yesterday announced a new ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, deputy under secretary of state, and thus confirmed long-standing rumors that Reischauer would leave. Reischauer, it is known, has been eager to get back to scholarship after five years away...
...conscious efforts of the Nazi re-education process. Since the war, of course, wave upon wave of American tourists and students have further entrenched American attitudes and products in Europe, though in the doing they have sometimes marred the American image. And almost everywhere there have been U.S. businessmen eager to cash in on the aspirations of others to reach the American level of prosperity. In. fact, one major reason for the prevalence abroad of many things American is that U.S. business sees the world as a huge market and has consciously set out to conquer it with the American...
...competently performed, but its glossy tone somehow brushes out any forward momentum. In a film that cries for wild hilarity and a heady spirit of adventure, everything that is going to happen happens according to long-established rules of the game, from the first skittish encounter to the last eager kiss. Its old-fashioned fun looks overpracticed, becoming merely another workout for a troupe of talented professionals who do their jobs with coolly measured skill rather than warmblooded will...
...President's loss in popularity has cost him considerable political capital. Democratic Congressmen, eager to avoid the label of Administration rubber stamps; are increasingly unwilling to support the President's proposals. All Johnson's talents of persuasion have not been able to give the Administration anything more than the narrowest victories for its two most original recent programs, the Teacher Corps and the Rent Supplements Bill. Moreover, these bills had to be so watered as to cripple them both. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a weathervane of Congressional opinion, felt free to kill Johnson's bid to lower...