Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PRICES: The non-Communist world either is not keen on checking inflation or is incapable of doing so. Maybe this is why it does not want to establish a relation between the price of oil and the basket price of other commodities. I think I am rendering a service in proposing this linkage, almost to force you to check your inflation...
That concludes my study of the nitty-gritty factors involved in a football game. With Harvard in front by a scant 9-8, we now move on to the more intangible concerns, things that even the most keen prognosticator might overlook...
...diary's first volume, Freud's one-time disciple, Otto Rank, analyzes Anais. By the fifth volume, her digressions on neurosis come as a matter of course. With the conviction that personality has ceased to be an enigma, she resolves to deflate her anxieties with keen insight, pretty much like the prick of a needle eliminates balloons. To this end, she doggedly pries apart relationships and scrutinizes the pieces for wear. It turns out that the traits she rebels against in friends often lurk unacknowledged in herself, so that an end to friendships ends external friction, while the sparks smolder...
...behind the right ear. As he got up off the floor, he shrieked, "Don't tell me that dingbat has written another book!" and ran right downstairs to our coffee table. He found it there, of course, and kept howling and slapping his thigh as he read your keen advice. Not even another bataca thump could make him stop laughing. He's just repressed. All the money I've invested in ropes, pulleys, electric gadgets and batacas, and George still doesn't think they have much to do with expressing affection. It burns...
Lawful Secret. Significantly, neither Keen nor the policeman who allegedly accepted the bribe has been indicted. Prosecutor Pearcy maintains that the grand jury has given full consideration to the Star's revelations, but cannot find enough evidence to frame indictments for the offenses reported. He has little to say about the charges against the reporters: "Grand jury testimony is secret by law, and I can't tell you more about the evidence. The case will be set for trial and tried like any other case...