Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily, the New York Post? Answer: "Good Lord, no!" says L.A. Times Publisher Otis Chandler. "Why in heaven's name would you want to involve it in city problems?" Question: Will Moyers, who has said that he will work only for a "genuinely independent" newspaper (and who harbors keen political ambitions), stay on as publisher? Answer: Probably not for long...
...house at Princeton lies at the end of a long, tree-shaded gravel drive, secluded from the noise and bustle of the public road. It is much like the homes of the wealthy, whose manners and mores John O'Hara chronicled over the past four decades with a keen ear and a sharp eye. There last week, O'Hara died of a heart attack at the age of 65. He was indisputably one of the major figures of 20th century American literature, but just as indisputably, he was an author who never quite fulfilled the promise...
...government; they wanted a member of their own party to head the bank. So he left Lavoro in 1966 and was asked to run R.A.S. When another major insurance company began tying the cash value of its life policies to the cost-of-living index, Lolli was faced with keen competition. Although he considered his competitor's plans unsound, he had to offer his own clients a hedge against inflation. "I had to give my R.A.S. agents something extra to sell," says Lolli-and he decided on mutual funds...
...time it began. Unexpectedly, however, mother seals whelped several weeks late this year, and many of their pups were at their familiar photogenic peak when the hunt began. The result was another field day for Canada's animal-rights activists, whose sense of publicity is every bit as keen as their sense of humanity. Perhaps Ottawa should find a surer way of neutralizing what Trudeau has called the "emotional distaste" of the hunt - like ending it altogether...
With the peculiarly keen insight of a man who for years was on the outside looking longingly in, Richard Nixon knows how much of a kick someone can get from spending a little time at the White House. Now that he can call the place his own, he has decided to share it; his welcome-mat policy has resulted in a record first-year total of 50,000 invited guests. They have been treated to an imaginative and varied array of entertainment. While the Nixon White House probably will never exchange its basic gray for psychedelic Technicolor, it has already...