Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...City Police Sergeant David Durk, 35, comes on in a button-down shirt, loafers and blunt idealism. "If the thought of seeing a problem on the street and doing something about it appeals to you," he told Harvard undergraduates recently, "become a cop." Surprisingly large numbers of students seem eager to try changing the world in blue uniforms. Most of Durk's recruits are headed for Washington, but scores of others have signed up to take exams in Los Angeles and New York...
...should provide, for six months at least, a valuable measure of relief for the southern half of South Viet Nam, especially in the Mekong Delta, where 60% of the rural population lives. On the other hand, the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam has shown itself only too eager to conduct the war outside its own country; its operations in Cambodia have greatly raised its morale. But if Saigon commits large numbers of men to fighting in Cambodia, the job of bringing security to South Viet Nam will inevitably be slowed. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, no doubt...
Liszt soon rounded up a staggering assortment of creative but deathless friends, among them Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and J.S. Bach. They all seemed to have learned English and appeared eager to use Mrs. Brown to make up for lost composition time. Rosemary laid in a supply of music paper and set to work copying down the carefully considered musical thoughts of history's greatest composers. "Liszt controls my hands for a few bars at a time, and then I write the music down," explains Mrs. Brown. "Chopin tells me the notes at the piano and pushes my hands onto...
...There are a lot of emporia along the game board. We are going to discuss clothes stores first, because I am eager to get in a word about Krackerjack's, which is the mother toadstool in the mushroom cellar of the Square...
Many of us have something to answer for here. We have been too ready simply to hope that the problem would go away. Unwilling to find fault, reluctant to look into unpleasant facts and call them by their right names, eager to avoid controversy, trying above all to be understanding, perhaps a majority of us have been less insistent than we might- while continuing patiently to practice restraint- to observe the scholar's inescapable obligation for critical analysis and hard appraisal, or the citizen's duty to work strenuously to improve, but not to destroy, the hardwon structures...