Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond the War. If Monty has any plans for after the war, he has not talked about them. In the light of his vast popularity in Britain, his keen mind and glowing personality, it is not surprising that there has been some speculation whether Monty may not take a whirl in politics...
...York Times Reviewer John Chamberlain calls "one of the great journalists of our times" has written one of the most important books about U.S. labor. Benjamin Stolberg's Tailor's Progress is a history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (I.L.G. W.U.-membership: 310,000), a keen commentary on U.S. social politics, a detailed, sometimes brilliant biography of an outstanding social politician, I.L.G.W.U.'s President David Dubinsky...
...revolting treatment of the 2,000,000 Poles interned in the Soviet area after the German-Russian Pact. A 37-year-old journalist assigned to the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Pruszynski was there when General Sikorski arrived to negotiate with Stalin for their release. Pruszynski's observation is keen, his humor quick and spontaneous. Russian Year is possibly the best firsthand report on Russia since the war began...
...hungers and doubts of people everywhere found expression in the keen, forthright London Observer: "It is no idle curiosity that looks for the fuller pattern of peace. It is for peace that our men will shortly die. ... It is for peace that the deaths and pains of Europe's peoples cry out. And peace is not just the end of fighting; it is a way of living together...
Duncan Norton-Taylor is a home-lover's Quentin Reynolds. Correspondent Reynolds is 6 ft. i in. tall, weighs 220 lb., dines with generals, calls everybody by his first name, and gives the bide-at-home a keen sense of participation in great and dangerous affairs. Correspondent Norton-Taylor is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, weighs 130 lb., is surprised if a major is nice to him, is frightened by clouds, prefers fingers to cotton in his ears when any firing is going on, and in general gives an endearing sense of what most fighters want most...