Word: keening
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...behind the right ear. As he got up off the floor, he shrieked, "Don't tell me that dingbat has written another book!" and ran right downstairs to our coffee table. He found it there, of course, and kept howling and slapping his thigh as he read your keen advice. Not even another bataca thump could make him stop laughing. He's just repressed. All the money I've invested in ropes, pulleys, electric gadgets and batacas, and George still doesn't think they have much to do with expressing affection. It burns...
...have spent nearly their entire careers at the Star. They have been part of a four-member Star team since it was formed last year to undertake the anticorruption series. The quartet interviewed some 700 people, including 48 policemen. According to the Star, a police informant named Larry Keen last spring approached the reporters and offered to bribe a policeman to show them how easy it was. The newsmen say that they demurred. Keen told them he would nonetheless hand an envelope containing money to Police Lieut. Lawrence Turner at a local restaurant. The reporters showed up to observe...
...grand jury indictment alleges that the reporters conspired with Keen to bribe the lieutenant. The ostensible purpose: to halt a police investigation of a burglary. The Star management and staff, and many others in Indianapolis, regard the charge as a spurious attempt to discredit the exposes. Pearcy is up for re-election this fall, and though the Star usually supports Republicans, it has attacked his record. "This is a trumped-up affair and the prosecutor knows it," says Managing Editor Robert Early. "It's nothing but goddamned hokum." Says Douglass R. Shortridge, president of the Indianapolis Bar Association...
Lawful Secret. Significantly, neither Keen nor the policeman who allegedly accepted the bribe has been indicted. Prosecutor Pearcy maintains that the grand jury has given full consideration to the Star's revelations, but cannot find enough evidence to frame indictments for the offenses reported. He has little to say about the charges against the reporters: "Grand jury testimony is secret by law, and I can't tell you more about the evidence. The case will be set for trial and tried like any other case...
...Some 28% express a keen interest in politics and follow politics closely. Far fewer (13%) actively participate on a day-to-day basis in influencing the country's political and legislative process in one way or another...