Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently insignificant differences in wording reflected some major differences in attitudes. Of all the NATO powers, none is so eager to negotiate with Moscow as Great Britain. And as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his stately progress from Paris to Bonn to Washington, Britain's popular press had clamorously accorded him one diplomatic triumph after another (MAC DOES IT AGAIN), as if one intransigent ally after another had been converted to Macmillan's concept of what kind of deal the West might make with Russia over Berlin...
...would rather see a man with the statesmanlike qualities of Senator Dodd as President of the U.S. in 1960 than any of the current crop of coy boys and eager beavers who would "like to be President...
...Sleeve. Obviously Nikita Khrushchev had not overnight abandoned his belief that "Social Democrats are the worst enemies of the working class." nor were the Socialists of Western Europe eager to revive their prewar Popular Front with the Communists: too many of their comrades have died in Arctic prison camps. Nonetheless, Socialists continue to tug at the sleeve of the conservative governments of their countries with insistent demands for Western "flexibility" in negotiations with Russia...
...Venice, well away from the famed Grand Canal. Among radical changes proposed: i) some buildings would be small skyscrapers; 2) streets would be open to automobiles. The planners' slogan: "A city that is only a museum is already becoming a cemetery." Catchy as the slogan is, and eager as they, are to make the city prosper, Venice's city councilors last week were still resisting both automobiles and skyscrapers...
...middle class invasion from which they never really recovered. At war's end, demobilization in Europe brought a huge influx of refugees--not merely the weary Britons looking for a second chance, but also a dynamic hoard of bright-eyed central and east Europeans. The newcomers, adaptable and eager to make good, often had technical skills and or artistic talents...