Word: keener
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...Camilla Belle). The place is their bomb-shelter refuge from the modern world Jack fiercely resists. Now it is 1986, Jack is dying, and he decides that Rose, 16, needs a family to wean her from the isolation that has nurtured her. He invites his sometime lover Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her two teenage sons to come live with them. The place was never quite Utopia, but it will soon become hell...
...moving, but the boat is very heavy." Batasuna would like to have its political ban lifted in time to participate in regional elections in May. For that to happen, the party will need to do more than just make hollow pronouncements. The government in the Basque Country is no keener than that in Madrid to see Batasuna back on the hustings. Few people still believe that ETA's fight does anything to advance the cause of greater Basque autonomy. Batasuna could help its cause most by realizing that...
...unreasonably petrified by the thought of another terrorist attack against the U.S. that they support whatever radical laws or actions our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens. Such an attitude poses a far more serious threat to this nation's health than any foreign entity. GREGORY KEENER Escondido, Calif...
...Morrow, who married him, recalled being captivated by his shyness. It burnished her image of his landing at Le Bourget airfield, "the picture of that mad crowd, that whole nation surging around his plane in Paris," she wrote. "I can see how they all worship him. ... His glance [was] keener, clearer and brighter than anyone else's, lit with a more intense fire." He was, she said, one of the "great bulldozers" of the century...
Many of those keener to engage in armed conflict have presented themselves as making the stark choice between doing something about the perceived threat of the moment, or doing nothing at all. Thus, war is typically portrayed as being an action of last resort. If only this were truly the case. It is not usually the war speeches, but the wider actions of our leaders that belie their reluctance to go to war. Proposals from the left to examine and deal with the root causes of the violence against us are either not taken seriously, or worse, are misrepresented...