Word: keening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued significance of the intramural program of athletics should be stressed. Visitors unfamiliar with the extent of the program or the interests it arouses are often struck by the keen competition between the Houses for the various athletic trophies...
...Western airs and a Western wife. She was Ivy Low, radical daughter of an English writer. He came to admire the works of Henry James, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Bach; he took up contract bridge. But Litvinoff remained Bolshevik to the core-a blunt, opportunistic, skeptical revolutionary, with a keen, mousetrap kind of mind that was wired always to orders from home...
...Tokyo, Crown Prince Akihito celebrated another birthday and said to reporters with 18-year-old solemnity: "I want to be a man with a strong moral backbone and a keen and reliable insight and knowledge...
...undertook to kid [Baruch] a little and wound up crouched 'way back in his personal doghouse. I thought it exceedingly funny that somebody had snuck onto his properties . . . and started a liquor still ... I guess there are times when your sense of humor gets so keen that you can fall down and stab yourself on it... My boss man has spent the last 30 years . . . hollering that subtlety is not a commodity to practice in newspapers ... I think I may have to concede finally that he was right...
...also-ran at Manchester, the fathers' record looked good. In ten tries, they had picked three winners and four place & show horses, given out-of-the-money advice only three times. The fathers shyly admitted that the tips were provided by a kindly parishioner with a keen eye for horseflesh. "We aren't kicking, at least not yet," said one local bookie. "In fact, three of us in this office are subscribing ourselves. It's a good cause...