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Word: eagers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson, 4-4 on the year, everyone is healthy for the first time all year, and coach Bill McCurdy is "eager to get at them." Reed Eichner, a junior who won this race as a freshman, and John Murphy, another junior, should be setting the pace from the start. Franklin Park is their home course and they know how to run it. "As long as we get a lead on them, they won't catch up," Eichner said yesterday...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers to Host Big Three Meet Tomorrow | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

Carter's press conference ended a hiatus of nearly three months, despite his promise on taking office to hold two such Washington meetings a month. In an auditorium jammed with eager reporters in the Executive Office Building, the President seemed uncommonly wary. He passed up any opening statement and virtually challenged his inquisitors to try to pull any news out of him. With the Florida caucus a few days off, they responded by focusing eleven of their 19 questions on the 1980 presidential campaign and on the allied theme of the nation's economic health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Making Like October 1980 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...made the statement the night before he left New York, at an informal dinner for heads of U.S. news organizations, including Time Inc. Castro claimed that he once talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame for "the mess-up" in U.S.-Cuban relations by giving President Carter bad, inflammatory advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Troubled Waters | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...parallel verses in Mark and Luke. Its doctrine holds that a divorced spouse who remarries lives in a state of adultery. The current argument within Catholicism is about whether or not the church should come to terms with the millions of Catholics now into their second marriages and still eager to be on good terms with the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hard Questions on the Issues | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...protagonist, Nathan reveals an even more intriguing mind. He is the young, modern Jew, acutely aware of the horror of the Holocaust yet eager to spare his writing any Jewish self-pity. His stories are icy, even mean, much to his parents' chagrin. Nathan's battle with his family over a story they deem insulting to Jews must echo a similar fight Roth himself waged with his relatives over Portnoy's Complaint...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Student of Desire | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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