Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elder Warren joined the American Railway Union and was blacklisted in 1894 when he went on strike. He moved the family to Bakersfield, where he got a job and began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage clarinet player, he joined the musicians' union and also worked as a freight-yard helper and truck driver...
...vice president in charge of product planning for American Motors Corp. Meyers urges his designers and engineers to create smaller cars that consume less gas. With a degree from Carnegie Tech and a classical background in autos-he held responsible jobs at Ford and Chrysler-Meyers has developed a keen appreciation for the conflicts between zooming costs and design innovation. Now Meyers is a champion of the rotary engine and is experimenting with an auto whose engine would be in the middle of the vehicle...
...Peter Kovner, race hysterically around the stage in baggy, decorated long johns. The skits are shorter and faster paced than the ones in Beyond Words, and the humor here is largely verbal. The performers in the second half of the show seem possessed by a manic energy and a keen sense of the absurdity potential in any situation. The high point of the entire performance is Markle's brilliant parody of Shirley Temple singing "On the Good Ship Lollipop...
...ULSTER'S PROTESTANTS. They're sturdy individualists with a deep sense of tradition, industrious and keen on moneymaking, but they are prepared to throw it all away if their fundamental beliefs are attacked. Look at the farmers. They poured their milk down the drains in the morning and blocked the roadways in the afternoon...
...accuse Putnam or Cabot of contemplating a complete break from traditional norms of financial management, but they are developing a keen awareness to problems of conflict-of-interest and corporate responsibility, which Bennett always chose to ignore...