Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...outside Nashville, Tenn., S.N.C.C. charted an even more lonely and combative course. Ousted were Chairman John Lewis, 25, and Executive Secretary James Forman, 37, both of whom welcomed white members and ventured some cooperation with less militant civil rights organizations. Elected in their place were two leaders who appear eager to drop whites from their organization: Stokely Carmichael, 24, as chairman, and Mrs. Ruby Smith Robinson, 25, executive secretary...
...church crisis deepened, Spain's eager young priests could count on a valuable new ally: Monsignor Marcelo González Martín, 48, who was installed last week as coadjutor, chief troubleshooter and heir apparent of Barcelona's archbishop. Though Monsignor González is non-Catalán in a rabidly Catalán diocese, he very quickly won over his first congregation at Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral, shunning the tiresome platitudes that his audience was so accustomed to. "I promise you," Monsignor González said with feeling and warmth, "that...
...their communities assigned to such menial tasks as running telephone switchboards or monastery kitchens. But there are also 28 modern orders composed primarily or exclusively of brothers, who are (with one exception) not bossed by priests, run their own worldwide networks of schools and hospitals, and are as eager as Jesuits to get Ph.D.s...
...Somehow we must come to grips with the ideas of academicians, journalists," Brooke says," and the majority of Americans who speak and vote against us." Eager for the approval of intellectuals, he is now so familiar with Harvard surroundings that he greets the gardners and cooks as old chums on arriving at the Faculty Club. He is certainly receptive to professor's ideas--it is the dearth of his own positive thinking that is bothersome...