Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Raymond Brookes, chairman of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd. engineering group, is one of a growing number of industrial leaders who feel that the time has come for Heath to settle with the miners: "I've been down three coal mines in my life, and each time I've said, 'If I had to work there, I'd want paying to go to work and paying again when I'd done it.' " If opposition within Heath's own party continues to grow, he may find himself fighting not just the miners...
...been threatened with it for a year.") In granting White the prize the Nobel committee no doubt recognized that over the years he has attracted a small but dedicated following of readers who accept his dour outlook and who are absorbed by the ramifications of his cutting-keen artistic conscience. In choosing him in the year of The Eye of the Storm, his ninth novel, the panel also showed a sentiment in favor of the "old-fashioned" novel-that is, a carefully crafted fictional edifice with a full complement of realistic detail and psychological probing. His newest book certainly...
...Wolfpack and their constituents, adopting the Avis we-try-harder mentality, prepared for the contest with high spirit and keen concentration. Bumper stickers in Raleigh admonished: STOP THE WALTON GANG. Though the event was televised nationally, some 4,000 State fans journeyed by chartered plane, bus, private car and even motorcycle to St. Louis, where the Shootout was held on neutral ground. Coach Norm Sloan claimed that his team was doing nothing very special to gear up: "We really don't have anything to prove," he said before leaving for St. Louis. But 7 ft. 4 in. Center...
...Bobby Hull, the former Black Hawks star who is now player-coach of the W.H.A. Winnipeg Jets. "Now there's an influx of mediocre pros, guys who don't put out every night. There's an inability to perform the fundamentals. The skating isn't keen, the passing is off, and the hitting is not strong...
...history of the Army-Harvard series shows 31 years of keen competition, and there is little reason to expect the rivalry to be different this time. Head coach Bill McCurdy speculated yesterday that the match should be a close...