Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians appear to be quite eager to exchange delegations in many fields. We should allow and even encourage such exchanges, but only if certain conditions are met. First the [U.S.] groups must be allowed to see what they want to see as well as what the Russians want to show them...
...agriculture, which Ruiz Cortines and his eager, able Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz (TIME. Aug. 1) have emphasized with increased loans, irrigation appropriations and fertilizer plants, the President was able to report a 20% increase in production and alltime record yields of Mexico's basic export crops, coffee and cotton...
...father disapproved of his biological bent, and the mission doctor was warned not to show Paul the medical books he was eager to see. Instead, he was encouraged to read good religious books such as Foxe's Book of Martyrs. "What I read," Stapp remembers now, "frightened the hell out of me. Sometimes I wondered if Methodists ever got to Heaven...
...Basking in the warm afterglow of the First International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy and its eager exchange of atomic information, more than 100 scientists from 32 nations stopped on the way home to tour Britain's atomic-research center at Harwell, where they were "shown as much as possible within the bounds of security." Among the visitors to the center: 15 Soviet physicists...
...budget to make those payments. Our biggest concern is where our money goes, and the checkbook record satisfies that." The major exception to the new pattern is among the newlyweds, most of whom are trying to make a solid start in life on a comparatively small income, and are eager to make a budget work. They enthusiastically figure out their own budgets; only a few of them seek advice. (Since 1949, the U.S. Government Printing Office has distributed only 35,000 copies of its pamphlet Guiding Family Spending.) But most of them, also, soon change their minds, particularly when their...