Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torn, tattered bodies were borne to the dance hall in neighboring Mullaghduff, where there was to have been a dance that night. From villages miles around the women came, with black shawls over their heads, to keen beside the coffins. This was the saddest wartime tragedy that had come to neutral Eire...
Another softball battle is scheduled for the next day on which it doesn't rain. This time the WAVES meet the league-winning Class D team of the NSCS. To insure keen competition the men have offered their opponents a male pitcher and catcher, a seven-run advantage, and a wager; the winners are to be entertained at the losers' mess-hall. We have accepted the challenge and the terms and are all set to prove they were much too lenient...
...torpedo WLB (as he had sunk its predecessor, the National Defense Mediation Board). But what he was really after was a showdown with the President. John Lewis is not at all afraid of the Champ; the Champ, after years of trial bouts, is not so keen for the battle...
...spirit of all this is not lost upon the keen understanding of awakened China. Is it lost upon us? Shall we allow ourselves to become party to such a program...
...trick shot circus star who killed five men in three states. Last February, 19 other prisoners broke prison in the largest break in Mississippi history. All but three have been recaptured. The prison is also criticized for working its men too hard-competition to make a profit is too keen among its 17 farming units. This year Mississippi's Governor Paul B. Johnson heeded the reformers. His order: more attention to rehabilitation of the prisoners, less to making money...