Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oliver Franks, Britain's keen, contemplative Ambassador to the U.S., is first of all a professor of moral philosophy, secondly a diplomat. He did such a good job of prodding Western Europe into uniting under the Marshall Plan that Britain allowed him only a short tour as provost of Oxford's Queen's College before drafting him for Washington duty last...
There have been four minor fires around the College in the last ten days, which has suggested to some keen minds that an arsonist may be at large. If this is so, I would like to beg him, on behalf of the entire Harvard community, to stop setting these petty little blazes and to start thinking...
...mean was oh-so peachy-keen...
...Dvaks from the jungles of North Borneo. Their mission was to hunt down the robber chieftain Chang Lun, whose little band of terrorists ruled the Kinta valley in the border state of Perak, the British Empire's richest tin-mining zone. Armed with six-foot sumpitans (blowpipes) and keen, long-bladed parangs, the naked warriors snaked through the jungles to Chang Lun's hideout and nabbed their...
...laughed. They knew Eleanor Patterson Gizycka Schlesinger, then 46, as a willful society woman turned big-game huntress and rancher, who had married a Polish count and regretted it, then a lawyer who died four years later. Even Hearst, who first hired her, underestimated her newspapering instinct, almost as keen as that of her brother, Joe Patterson, or Cousin Bertie McCormick...