Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and his grand juries are about to return indictments against some of Nixon's key aides. But the "inquisitors for the nation" are free to judge by broader standards. No doubt about it, the inquisitors are not keen about their task. Most politicians hesitate to get too far out in front of the public; yet the public, disquietingly, seems to be expecting Congressmen to use their own best judgment...
...doubtful that the AAUP statement will sway anyone. Harvard and Yale have already cancelled, and Princeton hosted the biggest demonstration in the Ivy League this year when Shockley spoke there in December. Few northeastern colleges are likely to be keen on the idea of standing up for Shockley's freedom of speech by scheduling yet another debate...
What exactly is wrong with this year's edition of Philadelphia's Ivy basketball? Even a man with a keen eye for the obvious would observe that with a talent-laden line-up the likes of Penn, it must be the coaching...
...late one Friday in the frightful winter of the year 19-. Holmes was filling his pipe with the noxious tobacco he kept in a slipper upon the mantel. I sat by the gasogene, trying to ignore the chill worrying my old Jezail bullet wound. It was not a very keen period for the world's first consulting detective; like all Englishmen, he only worked a three-day week. We could get little fuel, and warmed ourselves by burning pictures of coal from newsmagazine accounts of the miners' strike. Suddenly there came peremptory knocking at the door...
...miners must work overtime to keep the country from collapse. There has been no strike, no walkout. "I am dead against breaching Stage III, but at the same time I'm dead against forcing British industry to its knees," declared Sir Raymond Brookes, chairman of the powerful Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds engineering group. "If the rest of the unions can give firm guarantees that they will not attempt to pour through the breach, I'm all in favor of making the miners a special case...