Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorced when he was two, Bobby grew up under his mother's wing, learned the moves of chess from his older sister at the age of six. By the time he was nine, he played day and night, studied every chess book and magazine he could get his eager hands on. He was already beating most adults he could cajole into a game...
Copra & Galileo. When Dr. Little talks about the new course at nonparticipating schools, he is swamped with eager questions. But despite these reactions, the M.I.T. committee is still revising the basic text, this week will start making a $2,000,000-plus series of 60 or more supplemental films for classroom showings. One film consultant: Hollywood Producer Frank (It Happened One Night) Capra. In addition, the committee is finishing a handbook for teachers, will soon start approving some 100 books for outside reading on such topics as nuclear reactors and Galileo...
...There were fire-eaters, elephants and Chinese superbazaars, and special effects that must have taken all of Sponsor Du Font's chemical resources. The score - his first for TV-seemed not so much by Cole Porter as against him. Cyril Ritchard's sporadic drollery clashed with the eager droolings of the teen-ager's rage, Sal Mineo, whose Aladdin only maddened. As for Perelman, even his "native sportiveness" was lacking. He would probably have done better with one of the earthier versions he came across in his research, "but they were too spectacular...
Even at this late date, no one seemed eager for a final break. All of the nation's major political parties, except the Communists, offered their services to mediate between rebel Sumatra and the central government. In Djakarta, hundreds of students routed Dr. Mohammed Hatta out of his bed at 3 a.m. to urge that the nation's problems be solved "without bloodshed." Hatta obligingly announced that he would have "no part of any government formed under the pressure of rebel threats," and the Sultan of Djokiakarta took time off from examining model dairy farms at the University...
...outstanding match of the day will pit John Noble against Tiger captain Bill Fortenbaugh at 147. Both are undefeated and eager to stay that way. Noble has already won six matches this season, but there is little to choose between in this tight match...