Word: keening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to the council's resolution, the concert, which should cost around $3,000, was planned to be small because "after the success of the Spin Doctors [a concert that the council helped fund], students think our small concerts are keen...
Juniors Francie Walton (1-2-3) and Beth Messmore (0-1-1), along with sophomore Winkie Mleczko (1-3-4), have shown great improvement in preseason drills, says Dooley, who is keen on building his team "from the back...
...virtues of the books, surprisingly, is a keen sense of how men and women lived in early American society, or on its margins. The Pioneers describes the growing pains of a frontier town in upstate New York in the 1790s, in which religious sects jockey for advantage and the law turns bully. The Prairie depicts a pioneer clan named Bush, whose family values include squatting and kidnapping. The new nation may have been led by paragons like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson; Cooper's characters were the nation they led. It is our first group self-portrait...
Wilson's life as a child and student isinstructive for the very reason that it wasunspectacular. He was not a child prodigy; hisfather was not a scientist. He was a veryinterested, very keen young man who always tookadvantage of the wonders around him. Of coursemost little kids aren't this interested inorganisms. He believes, though, that people can,at an early age, become more aware of theirsurroundings and more appreciative of theirenvironment...
...Harvard played William and Mary to a 16-10 halftime deficit, a score that could have been 13-10 for Harvard had the team not allowed a blocked field goal to be returned for a touchdown. But in the second half, 170 second half rushing yards (62 by Troy Keen, the third-string tailback) secured a 36-16 Tribe...