Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage-managed the rise of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler. Arbitrary with his patronage, he antagonized many a ward heeler, earned the nickname of "The Old Bear." No one knew why he decided to run for Congress just when the Democratic ship was rocking in Kentucky. But retiring Governor Keen Johnson (no kin to Patriarch Ben) obligingly arranged for Talbott to be nominated. At the polls Talbott was exposed to "bullet votes" from disgruntled party hacks and from citizens who resented his highhandedness...
...strange pair in British public life have been Mephistophelean Lord Beaverbrook, 64, nominally Tory, and the editor of his deft, double-edged Evening Standard: Michael Foot, 30, cold, keen and Left. The Beaver has a weakness for tough guys, likes raising hell, hates softness in any form. Mike Foot hates old-line Tories. Last week the two deftly altered their two-year-old official relationship and deftly left their unofficial partnership untouched...
They Satisfy. Keen to cries for news of sport at home, the War Department each week buys 41,000 copies for overseas. Chesterfield cigarets distributes another 50,000 at camps in the U.S., and the American and National Leagues (and others) chip in for 58,000 more...
Feasible v. Popular. Newsmen, out of old antipathies from the days when yount Tom Dewey was known as "The Boy Scout," asked needling questions, kept getting keen, straightforward answers. At the end of his press conference, Tom Dewey had won most of them over, 100%. As at the Columbus Governors' Conference (Time, July 5), Dewey had stolen the show...
...Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky, the captor of Yelnya. A husky, keen-faced, long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...