Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time he reiterated that the Soviet Union will sign a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany, an eager potential heir to Soviet occupation controls, if the West refuses to sign an all-German treaty...
...most one can say against the idea is that in the present belligerent mood of Congress it is idealistic. No one can expect a Congress which makes such a point of scrutinizing every expenditure for foreign aid to relinquish its control immediately. But UN Secretary-General Hammarskjold is very eager to get plans for such a pool of experts underway. If he can convince the State Department and if it can convince Capitol Hill, a valuable replacement for present unsatisfactory aid programs can be initiated...
Preceded by an eager army of 100 Western reporters.* Macmillan was caught up from the moment of his arrival in a Muscovite version of Anastas Mikoyan's recent visit to the U.S. From the airport Radio Moscow carried his initial words ("serious talks . . . better understanding") to a nationwide audience. As his Moscow residence. Macmillan was assigned a gingerbread Victorian mansion once occupied by Russia's ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov (who now presumably sleeps near a power station in remote Kazakhstan). Ahead of Macmillan lay the Inevitable ballet performances. Kremlin receptions, the tours of collective farms, visits to Kiev...
...nation which sometimes pursues business with even more single-minded ardor than the U.S. is West Germany, the economic miracle land of postwar Europe. In the past ten years West Germany's eager entrepreneurs have carried their country to the greatest prosperity in its history, partly by extending its economic influence into areas that generations of German military strategists coveted but could never manage to capture. For a battle report on one of West Germany's outstanding current trade offensives, see FOREIGN NEWS, West Germany Invades the Mideast...
Though The New College Plan itself remain an unexplored possibility, the Presidents of the four sponsoring institutions show enthusiasm. "We are all eager to have the project explored more fully," said Richard G. Gettell of Mt. Holyoke, "and have high hopes that what started as a gleam-in-the-eye may, before too long, become a reality." Charles W. Cole of Amherst said that "were New College created, it would have a tremendous impact on existing institutions and on the whole problem of creating new ones...