Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill's truculence over Egypt and not to his soft hints to Moscow-reminded their friends that Sir Winston, at 78, is determined to be known to history as Winston the Peacemaker, as well as Winston the Warrior. The old man, they say, is consumed with curiosity and eager to cross swords with "the new boy in the Kremlin" like Franklin D. Roosevelt, he is convinced that his personal authority is enough to overawe the inscrutable Russians...
First in war, first in peace, and obviously putting on the EARC regatta for the first time--that's Washington D.C. Not that the Washington Rowing Association, the regatta hosts, did not have the very beat intentions--they were, in fact, pathotically eager to please. But they were bumbling...
...state political bosses before making appointments. Sherman Adams, crusty, hard-working ex-governor of New Hampshire, at first often overlooked this clearance. Then, when the squawks began, he grew so cautious that his office became a bottleneck. Another sore point among state and local partymen: the tendency of eager new Republican bureau heads to hurry the hiring of subordinates, thus bypassing patronage channels...
...Israelis say they are eager for an Arab peace that would end the regional boycott of their products and allow them to cut down their standing army. Ben-Gurion assured a reporter that Israel is willing to guarantee its existing Arab frontiers "for 100 years." The government is said to be willing to make minor border concessions, and to open Haifa as a free port, but not to turn its part of Jerusalem over for internationalization or to readmit Arab refugees in large numbers...
...small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers try to burglarize their boss's home, a shrewd snapshot of middle-class ladies cooing over the tough little delinquents they are eager to save...