Word: keening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Super Swords shave so smoothly because Wilkinson turned a trick that most cutlery makers thought impossible: it managed to put a really keen, lasting edge on stainless steel. But to slow-moving Wilkinson the runaway success of its blades was just a beastly bother, and it refused to move quickly to step up production to meet demand. In fact, Wilkinson's bosses make little secret of the fact that their primary interest is in promoting the steady sales of their high-priced garden tools-among them, the three-edged "swoe" (sword-hoe), which Wilkinson considers the first improvement...
Nourished by Baggs, the keen editorial rivalry between the Herald and the News has given Miami what few other U.S. cities of similar size can boast: two good dailies. Although the News may never overtake the Herald, Editor Baggs can at least stake claim to a record that other second-running papers might well envy. By almost any measure, Baggs's Miami News is the best second-best newspaper...
Missing out in Omaha was a keen disappointment to Publisher Newhouse. Having repeatedly demonstrated his ability to make losing papers pay, he now prefers the pleasure and challenge of making profitable papers pay more. But the defeat was perhaps endurable to a man who has other ways to spend his money,* and who in the course of collecting all or part of 19 dailies, has reached in vain for 25 more...
Richard III is early Shakespeare, and it is also very windy Shakespeare. More princes rant, more queens keen, and more nobles bemoan than in any play of comparable length (there are, to be sure, very few plays of comparable length). Richard himself is certainly villainous and unscrupulous, even though the only motive ever put forward for his villainy is simply that he enjoys himself no end by being consummately nasty. But he is better than villainous: he is memorable. And he is memorable because he refuses to take the rantings of his fellows seriously. Everything they say is humbug...
...bailiwick, your report on Love, McNichols, Dominick and Carroll was equally impartial and keen...