Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burma was learning the hard way about barter deals with the Communists. Caught with a huge rice surplus and unable to sell enough of it elsewhere (the U.S. is unloading a surplus of its own). Burma sent trade delegates to Iron Curtain countries to barter. They were eager amateurs who knew little about the fine points of trade, could not even speak Russian, and had to settle for whatever exchange goods they could get. Iron Curtain countries had plenty of cement to offer; cement, the delegates figured, would surely come in handy for Burma's projected construction program...
General of Armies. In the last decisive moments. Hammarskjold had effective support from the Egyptians in urging their allies into line. Egypt is not eager to have a war over Jordan water. Besides. Cairo and other Arab capitals, so lately cocky over Soviet help, have been cooled off considerably by B. and K.'s pledge to the British to work for Middle East peace. "Egypt does not want war," said Major General Hakim Amer in Cairo last week. "We appreciate the consequences...
...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Toledo War, or The Michigander's Bride, an opera by David Broekman, libretto by Edward Eager...
Working swiftly with his charcoal, the artist was nervous and eager, said he wished he had time to do a second one. "Why?" demanded Uncle Joe. He stomped across the office and stared a long time at the portrait. Then he spat and growled: "That's pretty good. You don't want to do that again-that's homely enough...
...London since Georgy Malenkov's enthusiastic welcome only three weeks before. The pinpricks (or possibly worse) from disgruntled exiles and refugees (there are a quarter of a million Iron Curtain exiles in Britain) had been expected and discounted. But where were the lipstick-heavy shopgirls and the schoolchildren eager to be bemused by the roly-poly Russians? The subtle, artful labors of Foreign Office schedulemakers, hoping to keep B. & K. from public contact, had proved an unnecessary precaution...