Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunderbolts, Anderson took a seat close behind Wyoming's Gale McGee, a committee member, fed him information and questions to use against Strauss. A liberal with an instinctive dislike for Hoover-Taft Republican Strauss, sometime History Professor McGee, 44, turned out to be Anderson's most eager recruit to the anti-Strauss camp...
Just as today, there were eager pollsters, and in their freshman year, the Class of '34 was asked to designate not only their religious faith, but also their choice of career. In striking contrast to today, a fifth were Episcopal, a sixth "Hebrew," a sixth Roman Catholic, a tenth Congregational, a tenth Presbyterian, a twelfth Methodist, and another twelfth Unitarian...
Would such a bargain justify a summit meeting? The British, most eager of all the Westerners to promote summit talks, had a further suggestion-let the final Geneva communique also report "mutual interest" in such problems as disarmament and nonaggression pacts-a ceremonious way of simply reaffirming that problems exist, even if solutions...
Jungle Search. General Ouane came storming up to the Plaine des Jarres. ordered paratroops dropped to block the four escape routes to the North Viet Nam border, where Communist Ho Chi Minh was eager to welcome his fleeing comrades from Laos. The stumbling flight of the Reds was halted by armed peasants loyal to the government, who fired on them. The pursuing royal troops closed in, and General Ouane demanded surrender by dawn...
Down to Business. If the Russians were eager to harp on the issue of inviting other nations, they were not willing to wreck the conference over it, and the U.S.'s Christian Herte>r, taking the chair next day, plunged straight ahead to the conference's real business. His lucid opening speech made clear that there would be a summit conference afterward if "constructive proposals" were made. He affirmed that "the U.S. is in deadly earnest about wanting to reach agreements." After the three other ministers and representatives of the two Germanys made speeches, Christian Herter proceeded...