Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press observed that he was "the only athlete in the world who can look at 35 Rembrandts in his own home and then take a warm-up jog through 40,000 acres without leaving his own domain. Yet he is the most democratic member of [his] village-keen, alert, gracious and always ready with a quick smile and unlimited courtesy." This time he finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles...
Eddie Rickenbacker liked Russia. He liked the passionate conviction of ultimate victory, the keen and capable Red pilots, the fertile look of tilled fields spread out below and the way the Russians deal with absenteeism in factories...
...perhaps you have noticed, some of the instructors at the School really have a keen sense of humor. This is borne out by the story one officer tells of his experiments in mixing drinks. Recently he came up with a particularly lethal potion as is evidenced by the name he gave it: "My Heart Stood Still...
Does an actor earn his pay if he has not memorized his part? When The Petrified Forest was revived last month in Cleveland, Eddie Dowling (Shadow and Substance, The Time of Your Life) played the leading role. For four nights keen-eyed playgoers caught the actor nonchalantly reading his lines from manuscript...
Favorite: Joseph Lyter Donaldson, 52, candidate of the State machine. Gaunt-framed Donaldson is bank president in his home town of Carrollton, and as State Highway Commissioner has been the chief patronage dispenser in Governor Keen Johnson's Democratic administration...