Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard student, as if there were something inherently bad about being apathetic, all the contributors to Gadfly offer us is their two-bit philosophy for our thirty-five cents. Therein lies the true tragedy of the magazine, for it is all too apparent that these undergraduates, so eager to say something, really have nothing at all to communicate. The reader has the feeling of having traversed a hog wallow only to be informed that he is dirty...
...Though an articulate denouncer of distant injustices, Nehru now told the press outside the Dalai Lama's house that he did not want "this matter to become a subject of heated exchanges and heated debates. I want to avoid the situation's getting worse." To newsmen eager to talk to the God-King, Nehru replied that he was sure the Dalai Lama was "more interested in a peaceful solution of the Tibetan problem than in press interviews...
...there to be no end to our tragedies!" cried Mme. Amiel. The news of Rolland's suicide was kept from Prisoner Jean Amiel, himself despondent as he served his prison term. Eager to get away from Perpignan, Amiel wrote a letter to Dr. Albert Schweitzer at his African clinic, offering his services when he was released from jail. At week's end, there was a faint ray of hope for at least one of the grief-ridden families of Perpignan: Dr. Schweitzer replied that he would be glad to welcome Jean Amiel as an assistant...
...smaller than most boys of his age, and his early sicknesses made him weak and shy. Unable to compete in any physical way, he threw himself into school-work with burning enthusiasm, getting top marks in all his subjects. Not eager to let him get too far away, his parents sent him to Iowa Wesleyan, a small college right in Mount Pleasant. There he quickly attracted the attention of Professor Thomas Poulter, a first-class physicist...
While the Germans are not eager for U.S. capital, most European companies (such as Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries, Holland's KLM) rolled out the red carpet. The analysts liked Holland and Germany best, particularly their electronic and chemical industries. France and Italy, they said, have too much government interference for most U.S. investors; Britain is suitable except where nationalization is a danger...