Word: keener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does it seem a hopeless paradox that the less toilsome became the circumstances of my life the more I ached to escape it? That the more tolerable and human white people became in their dealings with me the keener was my passion to destroy them...
...Chicago Psychiatrist Thaddeus Kostrubala, proud owner of a highly therapeutic 32-ft. cruising sloop. "It's a link with nature, with God, with the primeval. It touches your fantasy, your very wellspring. You have to read Conrad to really understand." For those who race, the motivation has a keener edge. "The sport is marvelously complex and terribly competitive," says Bill Parks. "It's a great challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance out of it. Even then...
...GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau, as a suburban husband looking for greener grasses and keener lasses, proves that the person who plays the common man must be an uncommon actor...
...Railroad Baron Jay Gould, left an estate of $64 million when he died at 88 in 1959. Of this bounteous legacy, about $37 million will go straight to Uncle Sam and another $13 million to the state, leaving 26 legatees to scramble for the $14 million remaining. A keener student of the tax game, the late auto heir and playboy Horace Dodge, who died at 63 in 1963, took it all with him and more. Unable to get along on his $150,000 yearly income from a trust fund, Dodge managed to borrow at least $10 million from his mother...
...death shattered the hope of 90-year-old John Keener Wadley, oilman-turned-philanthropist, that Frank had been cured by the enzyme (TIME, April 14). Wadley, who lost an only grandson to leukemia in 1943, had poured more than $2,000,000 into the J.K. and Susie L. Wadley Research Institute in Dallas. But only a few weeks after Wadley's jubilant announcement of a cure and the Hayes boy's release from the hospital by Dr. Joseph M. Hill, leukemia cells reappeared. Frank was admitted to Bristol General Hospital, and Dr. Hill immediately resumed the daily injections...