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Word: keening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Marie Windsor and Actor Elisha Cook, however, outdistance the field with ease in what might be called their obscenes of married life. And the camera watches them, watches the whole shoddy show with the keen eye of a terrier stalking a pack of rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Leighton said "it has been necessary to turn down many candidates clearly qualified to do good work in college who would have been admitted in earlier years when the competition was not so keen...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Fewer Admitted to '60 To Ease Overcrowding | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

...Arthur Goodhart Altschul ('43). A painter who often exclaimed, "Lord, I love the theater," Shinn depicted the flashing figures onstage at Manhattan's Winter Garden Theater. Shinn, with an old vaudeville fan's admiration for the acrobats' split-second timing, showed that he had a keen and appreciative eye for a pair of long silk-stockinged legs as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: YALE COLLECTORS | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...black, however. Pete Reider, indoor two-mile champion, will probably win outdoors, although Dartmouth's Doug Brew and Army's Lou Quantannens might provide keen competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Track Team Ranked Third To Favored Cornell in Heptagonals | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

...years, wears a stickpin, dresses with a flourish, disdains tobacco and sniffs at sports. Bradley is a roly-poly (5 ft. 6 in., 160 Ibs.) Briton who arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven, a casual dresser who often appears in mismatched pants and coat, a keen southpaw golfer and a Scotch drinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Automatic Shift | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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