Word: keene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear just when the wolves in Yellowstone National Park sense that the helicopters are coming, but with their sharp eyes and keen hearing it's certain they notice them fast. Last week one of the choppers suddenly appeared, flying low over a meadow where 14 gray wolves were bedding down in the crusty snow. The wolves immediately scattered, but not so fast that a crew member in the helicopter wasn't able to take aim with a modified rifle and fire a net over one of them. As the large pup thrashed in the net, another man leaped...
...major reason Saddam Hussein was so keen to get rid of Scott Ritter this week is that part of the former Marine captain's job is to probe Iraq's efforts to spy on the U.N. weapons inspectors, TIME correspondent William Dowell has learned...
...gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game. The ski patrol was not keen on this bit of Kennedy showboating and had warned that it was a dangerous sport--skiing fast and close, without poles, tossing a football through improvised goals as the sun sank and the shadows stretched and the slopes turned gray and icy. Aspen has had less snow than normal this year...
British Secretary of State Mo Mowlam has always shown a keen ability to cut through seemingly intractable problems with bold strokes, and her highly personal, risk-taking style has once again paid off. In an unprecedented visit to jailed Protestant terrorists inside the top-security Maze prison, she convinced the Protestant paramilitary groups to remain committed to peace talks for Northern Ireland. That means negotiations will reopen as scheduled on Monday with representatives present from both the pro-British Protestants and Sinn Fein...
DeNunzio, who is coming off a second-place finish at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, battled for a third-place finish at Midlands in the 134-pound weight class. A heartbreaking, 3-1, overtime loss in the fourth round to the tournament's No. 1 seed, Mark Ironside of lowa, dropped DeNunzio to the consolation bracket...