Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gold braid stirred in the corner, where sat representatives of the Southeast Asia Command. "Uncle Joe's" keen eyes opened wide, flashed a danger signal. He said: "China's been blockaded for some time. Reopening communications will help China considerably. Our units there have done the impossible, something that many people here felt couldn't be done...
...also developed a cadre of top-drawer commanders: the weak, the slow, the incompetent were weeded out without mercy. Those who survived were young, tough, skilled in the combined use of all armed branches-and often underestimated by the German foe. Many generals took unnecessary risks, for rivalry was keen, and the pressure from below urgent. But boldness usually paid off, for it was buttressed by muscle...
Right now the one country that fits the specifications of the protocol-and fits them like the velvet glove on an iron fist -is Poland. But diplomatic relations between Russia and the Polish Goyernment in Exile have been suspended for months, and neither side seems keen to renew them. Last week the Polish Cabinet called a meeting to discuss the situation, then called it off when Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was bedded with the flu. Polish press comment took the general line that Poland would be glad to join up, provided the Russians would guarantee Poland's pre-1939 borders...
...bleak Nanking headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army, thin, razor-keen General Shunroku Hata was brightly confident. He boasted: "As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops." The year...
What gives this highly unremarkable tale its remarkable lift is no less its fidelity to life than its sense of fun. Though its comic edge is keen, Sally's and Bill's unconventional housekeeping is rich in bedspread and double-boiler touches that evoke delighted recognitions. And though lightly handled, Sally and Bill are pretty convincing people. Much of the comedy comes out of the piquant conflict of their own temperaments-out of Sally's young need to be dramatic and Bill's grown-up insistence on being downright. Their easy, sprightly, sometimes funny talk stays...