Word: keening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half, the women played soccer more like an art rather than open warfare. Razor-sharp passes, dazzling footwork and keen field vision were all part of the palette of the masterpiece called Harvard women's soccer...
...delighted that Dennis Thompson has agreed to take on this new and important role," the provost said in a statement. "He is a person of excellent judgment, keen intelligence, and unusual breadth, with a demonstrated talent for creating connections across the University...
Bennett, though frank and provocative, has a keen sense of marketing and showmanship. While he upholds the value of religious faith, he distinguishes himself from TV evangelists and reaches a larger audience by keeping his discussion of virtues accessible even to secular readers and listeners. Reared an Irish Catholic Democrat in a broken home in Brooklyn, New York, he marries the instincts and grammar of a populist to the convictions of a social conservative. And he blends intellectual sweep with the physical presence of a prizefighter. It makes for quite a package. His speeches shift seamlessly from anecdotes told...
Politics is full of stories about how quickly the movers and shakers become the moved and shaken. This one is different because Dick Morris wasn't merely an adviser to Bill Clinton. He was the keen, dry hemisphere of the President's brain, the man who put Clinton on the winning track by pushing him hard to the center on everything--budget balancing, welfare reform and above all the family concerns that dominated last week's Democratic Convention. For more than three decades, Democrats had ceded those to the G.O.P. Morris, who in recent years worked mostly for Republican candidates...
...defense of this practice might be that the editors of the New Living Translation are hardly alone. Most of the new Bibles flooding the market display a keen solicitude for their target readers, protecting them from tricky phrases that might call for a moment's reflection or, in some instances, from politically incorrect sentiments. Thus the 1995 The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version renders God as "Father-Mother" and portrays Christ as ascending to sit at "the mighty hand" of the Father-Mother rather than "the right hand," thus keeping left-handed readers from feeling slighted...