Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Crowds of young volunteers now line up at Anderson Campaign headquarters on South Main Street in Concord, eager to spread the word about the Illinois congressman who hopes to "build a new coalition of disenchanted Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans." And the national press has slowly gravitated toward him--"Why Not the Best" asked The New York Times: in its recognition that he is as likely a candidate as Tennessee Senator Howard Baker...
...Kennedy campaign now knows what it's like to fight an incumbent. Time and again, Kennedy taunts, threatens and cajoles, eager to smoke out Carter from his Oval Office perch and watch the president become human again. Aren't you tired of surrogates carrying the president's message? Aren't you tired of radio and television images? Don't you feel insulted? Some organizers say the backlash vote -- the soft Carter support, the people who aren't too high on Kennedy but wanted to see the president in the flesh--may be high. The real test of the campaign, Kennedy...
...truth, however, is that Syria is being pushed farther into the Soviet camp than President Assad thinks prudent. Though Syria seems eager to turn toward the West to develop its trade and agriculture, Assad is restrained by his adamant opposition to the Camp David accords and by his dependence on Soviet military supplies. For a variety of reasons, Syria has rarely been so isolated within the Arab world as it is today. Thus another reason for Assad's troop decision was to remind other Arabs and the world at large that Damascus still holds the match to Lebanon, potentially...
...viciously urbane Dean Acheson argues that a Soviet space triumph may be necessary to shake American complacency, the agency plans to kidnap a top Soviet scientist. Enter Buckley's later ego, ex-Yalie Blackford Oakes, fresh from triumphs in two earlier works (Saving the Queen, Stained Glass) and eager for yet another chance to save the world...
...Huskies--one of the East Coast's premier teams--are eager for a repeat performance, particularly since the victorious Northeastern men's team is smugly putting the pressure on them...