Word: keening
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SULLIVAN: Tell us about your youth. HILLARY: I was born here in Auckland, but the first 15 years of my life we lived 40 miles south in a small village called Taukau and I went to primary school there. My mother was a school teacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impovrished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. I found the city rather trying. I was definitely very much a country boy. I was a really weedy 11-year-old, then I grew five inches one year...
...speed and left John behind. I always remember looking behind at John, who was absolutely desperate to try and defeat me on this hill, and I really couldn't understand it. Here was the leader of the expedition, the big wheel, why should he be so desperately keen to beat someone who was a great deal younger than he was? I was physically strong back then, and I acclimatized well, and I had quite a competitive spirit. Technically, I was a good snow-and-ice technician, as far as the standards in those days went. I was a good step...
...tent about 4:30 in the morning, and there were clouds around, but it was a good deal clearer so I realized that we had a good chance to put in a push towards the summit. I was absolutely certain that Tenzing and I could do this. Tenzing was keen to go. We knew that the conditions were good enough, so we just made our preparations and pushed on. I wouldn't say the final push was fun. It was jolly hard work actually, and the long slope up to the South Summit had soft snow and we were very...
Button, facing No. 1 Eric Tannebaum, had to retire after coming down hard on his hip, foregoing the rest of the day’s matches. No. 9 Caputo’s injury came against Tyrel Todd, who had beaten him earlier this season at the Cliff Keen Invitational...
...Perhaps the most important areas in which we need to reevaluate our approach are homeland security and the War on Terror. Rudy’s strategy consists of more than indiscriminately deploying troops. Instead, he wants to completely revamp the intelligence community. He’s also keen on more diplomatic methods, such as exchange programs between the United States and Muslim countries to encourage an exchange of ideas. Although Rudy discusses the issue of terrorism extensively, he is not the fear-mongering hawk that some make him out to be. Rudy truly believes that restructuring our approach to fighting...