Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members are nothing if not eager. I went to North Cambridge one day last spring to write a story about a party follower who had been fired for proselytizing fourth graders in his job as a gym/history teacher. That glimmer of reportorial interest was spark enough; since, there have been visits every couple of weeks from party members bearing the newspaper and willing to talk about the revolution, more than willing. Dawn, a party publicist, comes most often. She speaks a strange brand of English, leaning heavily on the rhetorical question ("Yeah, but what's at the base...
...track; each time the generals handed power back to the politicians as soon as possible. Indeed, the Turkish constitution authorizes the military to step in whenever the security of the state is in jeopardy. As their repeated warnings to the government indicated, Evren and his colleagues were anything but eager to take over. They were aware that a suspension of parliamentary government would threaten vital economic aid from the West and that military rule might even encourage further terrorist activity...
...important than county commissioner. Sheriffs do very, very little today--they run the county's jail, appoint those who serve notice on citizens called to justice, and bring the Harvard Commencement to order each year. Again, the job has become a Christmas-stocking position, perfect for the generous politician eager to hand out presents to his family and friends. Of the seven candidates (including another man named Michael McLaughlin) only Edward Henneberry seems willing or likely to change the nature...
...effort to sneak McNamara past the crowd, institute officials had Allison sit in a car at the Quincy House Master's garage on DeWolfe St. It took a couple hundred of the eager demonstrators some time before they realized the car's occupant was not defense secretary Robert McNamara, but loyal Institute official Graham Allison...
...year. Goiri now has a patented kit called Magnetic Fuel Savers, which contains two plastic-coated magnets, clamps for fastening them to the fuel line, and directions for the rumble-fingered. Price: $16 to $19.90. Goiri has been contacted by some automotive-parts distributors, who are eager to test the apparatus. But the cows are reported to suspect that the whole idea is udder nonsense...