Word: keen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ph.D. Since competition for a place in at least the major colleges is keen, students are aware as never before of their academic record-a record that has followed them from their very first days of school. "With more and more guys graduating from college," says Columbia Senior Peter Earth, "you're no longer looked up to if you went to college. You're just looked down upon if you didn't get a degree." But a simple bachelor's degree is not really enough. At Harvard, where only one in 100 students now qualifies...
...strongest pitch is not to the ear but the heart. During its 4 a.m.-to-midnight schedule, it airs hundreds of distress calls, ranging from alarms for lost children to pleas for blood donors. As a tracer of missing persons, it puts radio's fictional Mr. Keen to shame, has a stringer system all over the South to help in tracking them down. Last year WDIA gave baseball uniforms and equipment to 650 boys, is now raising funds for an orphanage...
...Hanzade, granddaughter of Turkey's last Sultan and mother of Fazilet, was another. Fazilet's father, Prince Mohammed Ali, is a cousin of Farouk's. He fled Egypt when Farouk did, and got most of his vast wealth out to Europe. At first, Papa was not keen on a royal romance. "I reared my daughter to earn her own living," he was quoted as saying. "A Queen has responsibilities and must give up many of her rights as an individual...
...stage for the sensational speech by Khrushchev that followed. Yet such are the intricacies of Kremlin politics that the one innocent victim of Stalinist slaughter cited by Mikoyan was Ukrainian Old Bolshevik Stanislav Kosior, whose successor in Kiev, as everybody in the hall knew, was the keen young Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev...
Bourvil, an unbacked Paris hackie, supports himself by odd jobs, including meat-running. A stupid and unimaginative fellow, he enlists the help of Gabin in transporting a freshly slaughtered pig through an obstacle course lined with gendarmes, prostitutes, Nazi soldiers, informers and other keen-nosed dogs. Only the Gallic touch could make such a dangerous journey seem so funny and so sad at the same time. The mishaps that befall the pair have a wonderfully impromptu quality, as if Director Claude Autant-Lara, occasionally glancing at the story (by Marcel Ayme) from which the movie is loosely taken, made...