Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from seven to nine years. British, Italian and West German suppliers responded coolly, though some West Germans are ready to offer goods on a deferred-payment plan-at 8.5% interest. Russia and Eastern European satellites, on the other hand, have been quick to inform India that they are eager to grant deferred payments-and at only 2.5% interest, a political price which U.S. observers feel is significant (though direct Russian-Indian trade is at present only 3.2% of India's overall foreign trade...
...About 20% were scientists; most of the rest were engineers or had medical training. Their ages generally fell between 25 and 35. Medical men, lawyers and a few other professionals were hard to place in U.S. jobs. But the academy found that man-hungry U.S. industry and education were eager to take the scientists off its hands. In spite of language difficulties, one research chemist dropped into an industrial job at $15,000 a year. Some others did nearly as well. With this encouragement, the academy is planning to bring 300 more Hungarian refugee scientists and professional...
...Received Publisher Malcolm Forbes, 37, eager beaver New Jersey Republican candidate for governor, and his photogenic family (four sons, aged four to ten, and two-year-old daughter Moira). Forbes's visit came at his own urgent request only three weeks after his Democratic opponent, Governor Robert Meyner, had at the Governors' Conference edged his way into pictures with Honor Guest Eisenhower for the benefit of the folks back home...
...knighthood to membership in the exclusive Jockey Club, to which no Asian had ever been admitted. They were also behind his being named President of the League of Nations in 1937. Rich beyond calculating (or telling), conscientious enough to perform the duties he was born to without stinting, eager enough to seize on the privileges that were his without questioning, the Aga Khan belonged to an age that was out of step with the newer egalitarianism. Last week, by the terms of his own will, his Imamate passed to a young man born and trained to a different kind...
...Paper Mill Workers, attacked the idea that workers themselves want shorter hours.' Said Brooks: "The evidence is all on; the other side. Hundreds of union officials have testified that the most; numerous and persistent grievances are from men deprived of a chance to make overtime pay. Workers are eager to increase their income, not to work fewer hours...