Word: keening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getup and a super-Groucho mustache for a frolicsome "Yukon Night" at the exclusive Surf Club north of Miami Beach. Other Bradley diversions: sharpening up his mortar-accurate (high 70s) golf game, playing the ponies (he has one named after him) at Gulf stream track, where he showed a keen eye for long shots, made $26.20 on a $2 bet. Said an admiring friend: "He spends more time studying the form charts than anyone I ever knew. He really knows his horses. I think he was in the cavalry some time...
Congratulations on your telephone cover [Feb. 23]! TIME's keen view of our No. 1 monopoly should be required reading for all teachers and lawmakers. It's time we realized that our business giants are giving us more and more for less and less...
...Such keen interest in current issues indicates the academic community is anxious to discourage the widely held notion that professors are anemic cowards who cling to the cloistered life because they fear the road where men are wont to tread. Indeed, the success of academic penetration into the social, political and literary life of the country shows how well the academy has destroyed this myth...
...Dicky," scolded the energetic young man, "your sideburns need darkening with charcoal." Dicky made an embarrassed grin, for as one of Britain's hottest young rock-'n'-roll artists, he should have known. The man whose keen eyes noticed the slip was Larry Parnes, impresario, housemother, and guiding light of one of the strangest firms in show business...
...traveled to England with the intention of blowing up the battleship King George V. After less than a week and nothing blown up, British po; lice caught Brendan with the explosive goods on him in a Liverpool slum tenement. At Borstal, one of the "screws" (warders) showed a keen sense of British affection for unsuccessful revolutionaries. Said he to the chubby would-be martyr: "Now, Guy Fawkes, lead on to the dungeons . . . You've got an 'ole suite of rooms to yourself . . . And I bet you ain't satisfied . . . That's the Irish, all over...