Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eager Italians. Throughout Africa, many departed whites have returned, or else have been replaced by newcomers from Europe. British railway workers, fired by the Kenya government at the demand of its labor unions, were back on their jobs a year later at much higher pay; too many trains had been going off the tracks. In the Congo's fertile Kivu region, deserted Belgian farmlands have been snapped up by eager Italians who are now making money hand over fist. Attracted by high salaries and a booming, open economy, the French population of the Ivory Coast has doubled...
...error of other views. U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, who is regarded as the architect of the declaration, has had bishop friends propose amendments strengthening it. And the council has yet to hear from Paul, who has a great sense of compassion for the conservatives and is eager to nourish their support for church renewal...
...Your Essay is the most superficial fairy story you have printed in years. Because of some mysterious "American image" concept, the boys at State consider it unethical to make use of a propaganda advantage unless it favors the Communists. They are eager to encourage socialist revolutionaries and they have so little faith in freedom that they fear the "political vacuum" that would result if Communism were crushed...
...resulting arrangement of relationships and activities which we call human society." Now something new is happening with, to, and for sociologists. They are finding to their delight that their work is in great demand in today's self-conscious society. Their academic prestige is rising, and colleges are eager to pay a high price for their talents as well as their semantics...
...wall in East Boston, one embittered Italian-American scrawled-'Leif Ericsson is a fink." In other cities across the U.S., indignant sons of Italy and politicians eager for their votes, reacted in like manner to word that Yale University had acquired a medieval map containing additional evidence that Leif Ericsson, riding the wild Atlantic winds reached the North American shore about the year 1000 (TIME, Oct. 15). Though Leif's landing is hardly news in scholarly circles, Yale's just-before-Columbus Day announcement stirred a storm of popular protest strong enough to have blown his longships...