Word: keening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special genius: he has always known by instinct the intricate combinations that lead to the law's heart. In his teens he won second chances (for more crime) with a patter of contrition and redemption. ("I now see crime in its true light. I feel a keen desire to rid myself completely of it.") In reform school, jail and prison he worked so diligently at worthy projects, e.g., once he wrote a constitution and bylaws for a youngsters' anti-dope league, that he impressed detention and parole authorities...
...global clamor and put off for 60 days the execution of Kidnaper-Author Caryl Chessman last month (TIME, Feb. 29), Brown was asking the legislature to reconsider the state's death penalty-and, in so doing, to give him inferentially some guidance on how to dispose of the keen-minded kidnaper-sex pervert who had managed to delay his execution for 11½ years...
...since I directed the picture, I felt keen disappointment in that I was unable to discover any mention of the director's name, nor, in fact, could I discover any mention of the direction. I must assume that had you mentioned either, you would have done so in words as praiseful as the others which had gone before...
Despite the public outcry, none of the big parties are keen to ban the German Reich Party. "There are so many ex-Nazis," explains a Socialist official. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's policy is still to ignore fanatic elements like the German Reich Party on the theory that its members will grow old and their issues will be forgotten by a democratically schooled youth. What many Germans, including Adenauer, dread is some unforeseen event, such as a heavy economic or political reverse for Germany, that could give the tiny German Reich Party an importance that it now certainly cannot claim...
...typical stride by riding from his Pullman sleeper to the depot on a baggage cart. After being pushed some 300 yds. (the length of eleven passenger cars) by a Pennsylvania Railroad cop and a Pittsburgh Symphony flack, Sir Thomas met the usual pack of newshounds, barked with a keen pitch for the headlines. As for the "lollipops concerts" that he planned to conduct, it would be the "soothing, soporific" music that he customarily plays for encores. Said he: "It places no strain on the mentality of the American, the Englishman, the German or anyone else. The orchestra more or less...