Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions particularly the "quantity instead of quality" approach that the financial emphasis usually produces, citing the massive incursions into the sport by the English and Japanese in the last few years. "My mother doesn't follow that school at all and she's not all that keen on people who do," Gerry says...
Callaway's political trouble is a result of the Ford Administration's keen -and fully warranted-post-Watergate sensitivity to voter intolerance of even the whiff of scandal. The worst that had been alleged about Callaway was that in a variety of ways he had misused his muscle as a Government bigwig to promote and enlarge the $10 million Crested Butte complex that he and his brother-in-law own. But that was enough...
Director Michael Rubbo has one too, low-keyed but keen and honest. He accompanied Sterling and Smallwood, waited with them in Protocol Residence No. 9 (identified as "the former residence of an American textile tycoon") for the greatest event of the trip to happen: an audience with the Premier himself. Sterling and Smallwood had been promised some time with Fidel, perhaps even a whole day. Smallwood prepares yellow pads full of questions for Castro. Sterling stays looser, anticipates the meeting less as an ideological confrontation than as a social coup...
...government has been moved into a key position of responsibility might have caused at least some degree of international confusion. Although as Director-General, Avineri will not sit in the cabinet, the power of the position combined with his established reputation as a scholar should make his influence keen...
...have read with keen interest your excellent and timely article on frostbite [Feb. 2] and also Dr. Mills' article on the same subject, which you quoted. It is impossible to overemphasize that the old wives' remedy of rubbing a frostbitten part with snow or ice is the worst conceivable thing...