Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This claim the scholarly Socialist Blum countered with a tirade as eloquent and intellectually keen as any in his long career. The raw edges of his mustache waved like flags as he charged that "the best-armed army in the world will go under if the commanders don't know how to inspire the will to fight." With Gamelin mute, said he, the onus of war guilt was on political leaders, and, if so, where were the still-imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and ex-Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel...
...Home Folks. Yet men with keen ears thought that Axis propaganda weapons were getting blunt from over work: global war to the death was just too big. German setbacks in Russia were al most too big for the master propagandist, Adolf Hitler, himself. His address to his people, on the ninth anniversary of his leadership, sounded like an old phono graph record grinding away under a groove-stuck needle: "Russian winter . . . many . . plutocratic . Russian warmongers . . . winter. . . ." innocent Ger Hitler almost said in so many words that it would do the German people no good to throw the Nazis...
...course, as sauces, soups, pie fillings, etc. Food powders make good mashed potatoes-far better than the dark, gooey "shoeblack" potatoes dehydrated for the U.S. Army in World War I by some 15 processors, few of whom, with their crude techniques, survived the peace.* Though Army quartermasters are not keen about some of today's dried foods, they promise the chafing industry large orders as soon as a few improvements are made...
...expert Atherton Lee says "they have to be reminded about the rubber program." Haiti's President, silver-haired Elie Lescot,† negotiated this loan himself last spring, when he was still Minister to the U.S. Longtime (1922-30) Minister of Education & Agriculture, he has for years taken a keen interest in developing new farm products and markets for his small, crowded, beautiful country. His son Henri studied agriculture at Cornell University in 1937-39, has successfully cultivated in Haiti large areas of lemon grass (source of citral for synthetic violet scent, used mainly in cheap soaps...
...also what is perhaps a less vital, but still important consideration. In the midst of what has promised to be the best hockey season since the days of Austie Harding, a demoralized squad is placed is the charge of a new coach who, although very able and a keen student of the game, is unfamiliar with the talents or even the names of his players, and who, because of other responsibilities, must be in New York one day out of every week. The detriment to Harvard hockey and to Harvard sports in general through Mr. Bingham's move is greater...