Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end Castro still seemed as eager to get rid of his disaffected citizens as they were to get out. Three charter boats were evacuating 2,000 refugees stranded at the port of Camarioca since the small-boat exodus was cut off three weeks ago, and the word was that the airlift would begin...
...thrillers, impossible to believe but easy to enjoy. With a script that gives her lucid intelligence little to fasten upon, Actress Thulin often seems well beyond the wit's end of the character she plays-a Jewish doctor who returns to Paris after World War II, eager to pick up her successful practice and her ne'er-do-well young husband...
...McGovern found that people weren't eager to get involved. "Given my age, background, and chances of winning, I think you can see why," he says. "Last April no one knew who I was, and when they found out, they usually weren't too interested. But now we're in a different position. I can look back on this election and conclude: I was 22 and didn't have any background. I finished 12th. With a little help, I can get elected next time...
...major investment bankers commonly has partners on 50 or more corporate boards, also raises capital and sells financial advice to perhaps 100 important companies and has contacts with hundreds of other firms. These bankers know that such companies as Litton Industries, Textron, I. T. & T. and Genesco are so eager to expand that they have set up staffs of their own to search out possible merger mates. They also know that the cigarette manufacturers want to acquire food, beverage or candy firms as a hedge against the cancer scare; last week, for example, P. Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold) bought...
Take John Hale as an example. Hale's personality is probably the most difficult to capture because he changes from one to the next. During the three months covered in the play, Reverend Hale changes from an eager, confident minister into a disillusioned and broken-hearted failure, with little or no faith. "Now, you cannot change too rapidly in this scene, or I won't believe you," Hall says. And from then on, it becomes a trial and error process...