Word: keening
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...soldier transfigured as he embraces victory and death, and another mural depicts infantrymen marching off to battle. The inscription does not criticize these men for wasting their talent and education as soldiers. Rather, the walls memorialize and praise the students: “They crossed the sea crusaders keen to help the nations battling in a righteous cause...
Moussaoui was arrested Aug. 17 after an instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy's facility in Eagan, Minn., became suspicious of his request for use of the flight simulator. Moussaoui reportedly showed keen interest in mid-air navigation--and utter indifference to the landing sequence. His instructor then alerted the FBI, and Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. It turned out that he has long been suspected in his native France of involvement in terrorist organizations, and the French had been seeking his extradition before Sept...
...late Sir James Goldsmith and the husband of Pakistani cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan, tried to tell the Western media about the terrible misery in the refugee camps where so many Afghans are forced to live. Nobody was interested. But they were very keen on a photo-shoot of beautiful, blond Jemima in her Pakistani clothes...
...walks of life, and differ in socio-economic background, nationality, race, and, of course, style. There is not a single project, though, in which Lee does not seem as organic a component of her environment as any of the actual people with whom she poses. She combines a keen aesthetic sense with an awareness of what sorts of features we look for in recognizing and categorizing groups of people...
...after campaigning in 178 congressional districts in 2000, he kept the House under G.O.P. control and earned the fealty of his troops, who often shout, "Coach! Coach!" when he walks into their caucus meetings. Hastert's keen sense of the commonplace favors and bills his members need to survive the next election is in contrast to with Gingrich's millenarian frothings. "Newt had a vision for the year 2020," says South Carolina Representative Lindsey Graham. "Denny is thinking about next Tuesday." A conservative, Hastert has also done what DeLay and Armey could not: convinced pivotal G.O.P. moderates that he cares...