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Word: eagerness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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Yovicsin is obviously not too eager to risk losing these starters for the Yale game, especially when Saturday's opponent is a two touchdown underdog. Brown is reputedly a rough team, which is further incentive for Yovicsin to protect his ailing players...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crone Possible Starter Injury May Bench Foster | 11/13/1970 | See Source »

...farmworkers were not eager to accept this pact. Although the Teamsters threatened to fire workers who refused to join the union, only about ten per cent of the approximately 700 farmworkers in the Salinas Valley had signed the pact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farm Workers Press Lettuce Boycott | 11/13/1970 | See Source »

...weary people to keep the guns silent. In the face of rising prices for meat, rice and vegetables, inadequate transportation and telephone service, and a nagging water shortage in Cairo, Egyptians are beginning to grumble audibly-and Gamal Abdel Nasser is no longer around to hush them. Few are eager to resume the war with Israel. But President Anwar Sadat, who took over last month after Nasser's death, is also aware that significant numbers of his constituents-most notably the armed forces-are becoming increasingly desperate about recovering territory lost to Israel in the 1967 war. Thus Sadat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Dangerous Deadline for the Middle East | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...ever poorer in a capitalistic state. But it has yet to prove wrong his less well remembered forecast that workers would become progressively more alienated from their jobs. The young people now entering the factories present an opportunity for employers to end that alienation. Blue collar youngsters are as eager as the college students to become involved and to genuinely earn the pay and leisure that they seek. Essentially it is the task of management to give them that chance. As it is, the alienation of the blue collar worker compounds all the other ills of the U.S.. making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Blue Collar Worker's Lowdown Blues | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

Like God, these forces depend for their power on belief. They demand the greatest possible production and the greatest possible consumption, so the people must be eager producers and eager consumers. Largely through mass-media advertising, cultivating dissatisfactions, playing on pressures to compete and conform, the corporate state persuades people to worship discipline and hedonism simultaneously. The inevitable contradiction, intensified out of human proportions, destroys all harmony between work and play and makes lives schizophrenic and tragic...

Author: By F. MICHAEL Shear, | Title: Flowers The Greening of America | 11/4/1970 | See Source »

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