Word: keening
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...government has been moved into a key position of responsibility might have caused at least some degree of international confusion. Although as Director-General, Avineri will not sit in the cabinet, the power of the position combined with his established reputation as a scholar should make his influence keen...
...have read with keen interest your excellent and timely article on frostbite [Feb. 2] and also Dr. Mills' article on the same subject, which you quoted. It is impossible to overemphasize that the old wives' remedy of rubbing a frostbitten part with snow or ice is the worst conceivable thing...
...Hara worked hard at his craft. He retained a keen interest in current slang, and the 1972 supplement to The Oxford English Dictionary credits him as the source of 11 words, including the now familiar "fuck-up." He was particularly concerned with the visual composition of the printed paragraph. As a young writer, he spent hours over A Farewell to Arms, using Hemingway's paragraphing as a model for his own work...
...this particular rabbit had a fast line of back talk, a keen sense of irony and an indomitable lust for survival. Cartoon heroes, if you think about it, tend to be victims. Either that or insufferable, like Mickey Mouse. Only Bugs Bunny managed to triumph in his struggles against an assortment of splenetic aggressors without ever getting smug...
...most startling physical characteristic of a soap is its sound. Soaps keen. The plots jerk along in a series of moans...