Word: keening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colgate, then, is a non-vocational business school. There, men prepare themselves for jobs by learning the thought process rather than concentrating on such mechanical skills as accounting. More important, by the social training of fraternity life, they develop a keen preception of the requirements for a happy life in the communities to which they will return. Delving into the sciences and the arts, Colgate men build up a fund of interests to serve them in their future lives...
...deputies and hoped that "you will find the road completely cleared of problems . . ." But he brought up the problem of Trieste (TIME, Sept. 21); the French delegation worried about France's claims in the Saar; the Dutch wanted to talk about trade barriers; only the Germans seemed keen on the real purpose of the meeting: to frame a political constitution for Europe with "as strong a supranational authority as possible." Once accepted, the political authority would be nourished by the European coal-steel pool (already in operation), and defended by the long-planned six-nation European Army...
Pusey has shown a keen interest i the varsity football team Clark pointed out. He has appeared at several practices and also saw part of the controlled scrimmage with Boston University last Friday...
...Pedregal and Lomas, in Guadalajara's fashionable lakeside Chapalita, on the suave green slopes of Cuernavaca, they inhabit glittering glass villas that are the last word in international-style architecture. They drive bright-colored Cadillacs and set a fast pace at the country clubs. Bedecked with diamonds and keen to be seen, they jam the opera for performances at which tickets cost more than at New York's Met. They bet heavily at the races, and they have done a far better job than either the Reds or the Rockefellers in taming that old radical, Diego Rivera...
...Korea. It is also the most harrowing, a grim and terrible reminder of the nature of, the foe and the incredible Communist brutality toward the helpless. Yet it is a book curiously devoid of hatred or even resentment. It is the straight, lucid report of a keen observer who seems to have stored the horrors he witnessed and suffered in a cool corner of his punished brain...