Word: keening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only natural, when installment credit in an industry amounts to $11 billion, that the representatives of the industry should take a keen interest in the overall economy ... To imply . . . as TIME did in its July 4 issue, that the distributive element of the automobile industry is seeking Government controls of credit is false and directly contrary to our approach to the problem...
...like" as a friend of mine suggested. Perhaps it becomes that when she is tired. Another friend has told me that some say that others help her to write her books. When one has the privilege of conversing with her, any such suspicions are dispelled. She has such a keen and really well-informed mind as well as a very apt vocabulary. She graduated from Radcliffe, cum laude. There seems to be less incompletences in her life than in the lives of the great majority of normal people. "She is the only one who has ever been received without apology...
...market for all European products, 2) the integration of European highways and railroads, 3) a European pool for the development of atomic power. But the French wanted to go slow, and the Germans, who used to be ardently supranational when they had no sovereignty to lose, no longer seemed keen to surrender any of their national independence...
Distraught Susan at last turns to Clark Gable. A keen-eyed soldier of fortune who smuggles strategic goods to the Reds, Clark is more interested in releasing Susan from her inhibitions than her husband from jail. But a series of rebuffs (each time he kisses her she responds with a maidenly protest) makes him realize that this is a girl in a million-well, in a thousand. Clark determines to do the manly thing : he will produce her husband and let Susan choose between them...
...they're after, they find that having it is not nearly so much fun as chasing it." Goodie's obvious enchantment with his job as governor belies the statement, but much of the fun he gets out of the governorship is the stimulation it gives to his keen anticipation of 1956. If Ike should step down, Goodie will be off in mad pursuit...