Word: keening
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...jump with an Army Special Forces group he was inspecting ("It just seemed to be the thing to do"). He graduated from Harvard and Yale Law School, was once a clerk to retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed. Less a specialist than most Whiz Kids, he is a keen troubleshooter with a fluent pen and an eye for extracting the essential. He got the Administration's civil defense program (such as it was) under...
...Keen-eared Western diplomats in Geneva last week thought they detected the faintest softening in Peking's tone. Perhaps it was just a lullaby over the Laos settlement, or maybe the Reds were too hungry at home to take on external adventures. At any rate, in his closing speech to the negotiators of the Laos accord, Peking's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi, 61, sounded almost benign. After some standard bluster, the tough veteran of the civil war said: "We have, after all, broken a link in the chain of tension in Southeast Asia, and we should enlarge...
Your story on the gold drain [June 29] was a keen analysis. But may I add one tremendous factor that is invariably ignored in these discussions, yet is costing us dearly in our losing fight for world markets...
...lived in Spain and maintains a keen interest in its life and problems, I found your treatment of that troubled country judicious and accurate...
...brooding person by nature." Discipline. Rene (she rhymes, it with keen) met Scott Carpenter in Boulder in 1947, when he was a university student. She was a movie house usherette and sang in a local Methodist church. A little more than a year later, they were married. As a new Navy wife in the 1950s, Rene got the basic training that pilots' wives have to expect-the hard discipline of waiting at home for word of safe landings...