Word: keening
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...Each new development had the Democrats rubbing their hands together in anticipation. For months the opposition party had had almost nothing to say, partly because the nation was at war and partly because it was keen to align itself with a popular President. With nothing much to argue about, the Democrats had nothing with which to distinguish themselves. Worst of all, no one in the country was willing to blame the state of the economy on anyone other than Osama bin Laden. "You can only do what you can do based on the cards you have to play," said Senator...
...After a year in office, one thing is clear about Bush's political operatives: when they make a mistake, they fix it fast. When their conservative instincts lead them down a path that much of the country isn't keen on, they are awfully good at changing the subject while holding to their original course. Which is why Bush, early last week, said his mother-in-law was one of the little people who got screwed by the corporate giant. On a trip to a West Virginia machinery shop Tuesday, Bush told workers that Jenna Welch, 82, had lost almost...
Lovell, who is the sort of writer who refers to "hare coursing" without elucidation and uses expressions like "mad keen," is perhaps too embedded in the Mitfords' world to provide the perfect introduction for contemporary American readers. Nevertheless, books containing such choice lines as Muv's lament, "Oh, why do all my daughters fall for dictators?" are few indeed, and we must cherish every one of them...
...Pentagon brass, which wasn't keen on a CIA-led operation to start with, was skeptical of the agency's main scheme: that the U.S. could put its faith--and its people--in the hands of an opposition force that had shown little skill in fighting the Taliban in the past. The Northern Alliance's charismatic leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud, had just been assassinated. The question wasn't whether the U.S. could buy the loyalty of the rebels but whether they would stay bought. It wasn't certain that U.S. troops would be allowed to stage in nearby Tajikistan...
...quite like this one, a piercingly funny book without a joke in it. Dorothy Gallagher opens with the sickroom of Bella and Izzy, her Russian-Jewish mother and father, then takes their stories backward in time through the chapters of the American immigrant experience. No filial whining, just keen observations and a steady affection...