Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belt; Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, who has yet to extend his vast Senate prestige to the outside world; Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, ready, in Sputnik's day, to cash in on five years of criticizing Republican defense policy; Adlai Stevenson, believed by many to be eager to try against some Republican besides Ike; Estes Kefauver, still, according to the Gallup poll, the peepul's choice (he leads second-place Jack Kennedy by 26% to 19%, but professional Democratic politicians are more unwilling than ever-if possible-to accept him); and Minnesota's Senator Hubert...
Chief actors on the show are Bil Baird and his marionettes Snarky and Gargle. Under Snarky's eager questioning and Gargle's perpetual doubting, Baird traces the history of mathematics from the days when the caveman could count only "one, two, one, two, and a heap.'' He describes the earliest numerals, explains the origin of the decimal system, shows how ancient merchants used their counting boards, stages a computation race with an abacus expert, tells about the discovery of zero." Now I heard every thing," grumbles Gargle. "Zero- zero means nothin' Baird...
...advocate and practitioner of white supremacy, South Africa's Prime Minister Johannes Strydom has few rivals. One of these is his brother-in-law Jan de Klerk, 54. Strydom appointed De Klerk, a onetime paid party official who has never been elected to Parliament, his Minister of Labor. Eager to curry more votes among the ardent white-supremacist farmers of the platteland, Minister de Klerk promptly ordered South Africa's garment industry to hold in reserve "for whites only" some 30,000 to 40,000 garment jobs, ranging in categories from cutter to supervisor...
...Francis Bacon's 16th-century dictum that knowledge is power has come fully and prophetically true. Advances in abstract scientific theory can promise or threaten next year's breakthroughs in the technology of national power. And on the sidelines of the science-technology race, the backward nations, eager for progress and wary of winding up in the loser's camp, watch intently to see how Russia fares in competition with the West...
Princeton police chief John H. Smith appeared quite upset over the beating this morning and eager to take strong action. He felt, however, that Shelvey's tenuous identification "isn't definite enough for us to go out and arrest those guys right away. We certainly want to question them, but whether we'll do t before or after the game I just don't know. We'll have them in here as soon as we feel justified in doing...