Word: keening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iowa voters have seen plenty of Forbes on the small screen; now they're keen to eyeball him in the flesh. He's attracting good crowds--150 to 250 people--who mainly want to make sure that he's not as kooky as that other multimillionaire who once ran for President. His seriousness and earnestness tell them that, while his occasional sheepish grins reveal that he's not an automaton either. He has the courage of his awkwardness. In Council Bluffs, Chris Bridgeford, who owns his own construction business, listened to Forbes and said, "I was hoping to hear something...
...absorbed by their pupils as to make it difficult for them to pursue their own studies and research, and a danger was felt of losing our best men if they could not be given a better opportunity for these things." Harvard administrators were worried because "the students [were] more keen, more ready to criticize and discuss"; they were afraid the tutors would be too busy answering their pupils' questions to conduct any productive research...
...leadership, so effective in engineering the current peace accord in Bosnia, has yet to play a significant role in Burundi. Although National Security Adviser Anthony Lake has voiced a keen interest in the region and regularly holds meetings on Burundi with senior Administration officials, and although U.N. envoy Albright visited the country on Jan. 20 to warn against any party's seizing power by force, such efforts have yet to produce noticeable results on the ground. Humanitarian considerations aside, Washington does have cause for concern. In 1994 the U.S. spent more than half a billion dollars to assist the victims...
Friends remember him as a loving man with a keen sense of humor...
...does with his continued existence, the living hero of a sometimes abstract cause. We read Rushdie, though, because in his work larger forces--the forces we imagine to be somehow always operating in this world-- are brought to bear on lives that are rendered exquisitely, fantastically, and with a keen sense for the sublime within the mundane...