Word: keening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent off to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn.-accompanied by Danseuse, her mare. One summer she made the grand tour of Europe with three other girls, a chaperone from Holton-Arms and a drip-dry wardrobe. ("We would spend all night washing.") She had a keen and retentive mind, effortlessly stayed in the top tier of her classes. But she seemed to fear scaring her friends away by being both beautiful and bright, often hid her intelligence behind a mask of schoolgirl innocence. Recalls Socialite Jonathan Isham: "She was so much smarter than most of the people...
...rough going in enticing John F. Kennedy into the recreations that he enjoyed with Gettysburg Neighbor Dwight Eisenhower (farming, bridge and golf), Harry Truman (poker) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom Allen was a top jester as well as a District of Columbia commissioner). Last week Golfer Kennedy, never keen on card games, made it clear that there will be no afternoon trips to Burning Tree: he will abstain from golfing unless he is on a declared vacation. The one hope left for Allen seemed to be touch football, which ranks with sailing and swimming among Kennedy's favorite...
EXODUS. Director Otto Preminger and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo have reduced a fatty mess of prose by Leon Uris to a lean, keen saga that keeps the audience on seat's edge as ten name players and 45,000 extras pseudohistorically re-enact the founding of Israel...
...Incumbent John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky's courtly Mr. Republican, won a thunderous victory over Democrat Keen Johnson, who came out of the business world (vice president of Reynolds Metals) to run on a record logged during a single term as state Governor 17 years...
...There is keen competition among embalming supply houses to help make the dead look healthier than their mourners...