Word: keen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exceptionally prolific, turning out five columns a week for 21 years at the New York Herald Tribune, and four a week for ten years at the New York Times. He lavished most of his attention on his favorite sports-baseball, boxing, horseracing and football-but he also was a keen lover of the outdoors and wrote with affection about fishing. "He might have been a great athlete," Smith once wrote of himself, "except that he is small, puny, slow, inept, uncoordinated, myopic and yellow...
...Nabokov approves. He scolds Tolstoy, of course, for his digressions on agriculture, but he does seem to appreciate, for once, the human elements of the story. And there are indeed human elements in Tolstoy. His insights into Tolstoy's use of time sequences and sense of timing seem keen and impressive...
Outsiders have always had a special appetite for the Tug Fork's bloody contretemps. Back in 1888, the New York World sent a reporter to have a look at the combatants. The World man's Barnum instincts were keen: he almost persuaded Devil Anse to decamp to New York City and charge gawkers $500 a week just to have a look at an authentic feudist, Winchester in hand...
...nuclear war will happen that will have such a catastrophic effect that following the war nations will resolve never to use them again...Human nature is not willing to change unless it experiences, and even if it experiences it is so forgetful...so people aren't so terribly keen on disarmament as they ought...
HARVARD 2-UMASS 1: Led by the goal-hungry pair, Cat Ferrante and Kelly Landry, the play-making Alicia Carrillo, and the midfield personified by Jenny Greeley, the Crimson parlay its keen scoring instincts into another big victory. UCONN 2-CORTLAND STATE 1: The Huskies are virtually invincible at home