Word: eager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dacca, Bangladesh, eager buyers crowd around empty tanks to wait for deliveries of scarce and costly kerosene. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzanians line up for hours for deliveries of sugar and other basic necessities that are hopelessly delayed, partly because there is little gasoline for trucks. Gas is rationed; service stations are closed three days a week; and President Julius Nyerere urges his Cabinet members to ride bicycles to work. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian cab drivers crowd the streets and snarl traffic during a three-day strike to protest a 58% rise in gasoline prices. Meanwhile, riots break...
There is some more direct evidence of the Shah's complicity in executions too. Early this year, SAVAK agents testified before" Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary courts that the Shah, under international pressure to liberalize his regime and therefore eager to hide evidence of repression, gave the secret police a terse oral order in 1975: "Don't take any prisoners. Kill them." In a confession interspersed with sobs, Bahman Naderipour described how he and other agents, in response to this order, took nine political prisoners out of Evin jail in northwest Tehran, handcuffed and blindfolded them and then...
...stiff rise from the current official maximum of $23.50 per bbl. now seems increasingly likely when the cartel meets in Caracas on Dec. 17. So too do market-tightening cutbacks by a number of cartel members eager to keep oil prices high even as the world economy slows...
...happens to every man sooner or later: eager to have sex, he finds himself impotent, unable to achieve or sustain an erection. For most men such disappointments are fleeting episodes in otherwise successful sex lives. But for perhaps as many as 10 million American males impotence is a devastating chronic condition. When the cause is psychological, which may be true in about half of all cases, counseling and sex therapy can often help. But for most impotence resulting from physical problems, only one remedy is available: the penile implant. Though the public is generally unaware of these mechanical devices, which...
Ratso Rizzo, the crippled hustler of Midnight Cowboy. The grizzled old codger of Little Big Man. The myopic counterfeiter of Papillon. The eager virgin of The Graduate. Carl Bernstein of All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman has played them all in a career of dazzling virtuosity. But in Kramer vs. Kramer, he has assumed perhaps the most difficult persona of all: Dustin Hoffman...