Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penny Tweedy was not keen on syndicating her wow horse. "I personally would prefer to race him as long as he stays sound," she says. But the family needed a lot of cash to pay estate taxes after her father, Christopher T. Chenery, utilities magnate and founder of Meadow Stable, died last January. The Secretariat bloodline was the most salable asset...
Although Herrnstein's scientific justification and syllogism have been seriously questioned, he gives no new evidence nor does he refute his critics. Instead, he slanders them: "I suspected that many liberal social scientists, wedded to environmantalism, were not keen for open exchange in any event..." Quite arrogant, since he has refused public debate on the question and has yet to respond to criticism of his data...
Before he began serving a sentence for parole violation at Minnesota state prison at Stillwater, Richard C. Jackson had never been considered an artist. But in 2% years, the 53-year-old printer developed a keen aesthetic eye as well as an appreciation for shading, contrast and tone. Working laboriously in the prison's printing shop, convict Jackson came up with an amazingly good portrait of Andrew Jackson, a nice rear view of the White House and passable reproductions of the filigree found on a U.S. $20 bill. When his sentence expired in March, he loaded up a cardboard...
...direction is characteristically light and bouncy, a necessity given the heavy-handed theme, but she does not skim over elements of sometimes tragic seriousness. Underlying Lila and Lenny's relationship, as May develops it, is an escalating dynamic of disintegration which lends the humor and fun a keen psychological edge. Lila, for all her obtuseness, senses from the start Lenny's reserve--but he refuses to tell her anything is wrong, to bring it all out in the open, since his trust and confidence in her has been broken. She frantically tries all the harder to communicate and to please...
...hope they bring up a real formidable squad," Cleary said. "We want some keen competition." Harvard has beatem St. Nicholas with relative ease over the past few years, and the only way the game will be of any use to Harvard is if St. Nicholas makes a strong showing...