Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good for their image, but the Green Bay Packers do read newspapers. So last week they learned that they were old, worn, weary, and probably not up to the task of playing the fresh, eager, healthy Cleveland Browns for the National Football League championship...
...Johnson's play for negotiations seemed to be well timed and shrewdly designed. An exhaustive-and exhaustively publicized-presidential effort to bring the war to a conference table could serve once and for all to satisfy the U.S. public, Congress and the world that the Administration was genuinely eager to end the war. If it came to nothing Lyndon could use its failure to justify his whopping U.S. defense budget, which may top $60 billion this year...
...Eager for Talk. Garaudy's soothing, sophisticated view of Marx is plainly not that of Mao, but his book has not been disavowed by France's Red bosses. Nor is he the only Communist eager for dialogue. This year five leading Communists and five liberal Catholic intellectuals in Italy contributed essays to a book called The Dialogue Tested. There have been symposiums involving Marxist and Christian intellectuals at Frankfurt and Tutzing in Germany, Salzburg and Prague. None of this changes the ugly reality that the church under Communism is still persecuted; yet there is a cautious measure...
...Please accept my thanks for the story on Southern Baptists [Nov. 26]. As a Southern Baptist layman, I am especially eager for Americans to have a factual account of how we stand as a denomination in this important area of our national life. The picture you present is precisely correct. We have come a long way and are still moving miraculously further toward the goal of acting like Christians about integration...
...arms and money from Saudi Arabia and Britain. In September after the war turned into a stalemate, Saudi Arabian King Feisal and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser negotiated an uneasy ceasefire. Nasser's expeditionary force costs $500,000 a day to maintain; both he and Feisal seem more eager than the Yemenis for a firmer peace...