Word: keening
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...home, however, the boys soon forget their difficulties. "Gee, it was great!" they tell their parents. "We waded for miles in the brook and hit Mr. Cochran right in the face with a tomato and put rocks in his pack till he could hardly walk . . . Boy, we had a keen time...
...Technicolored biography, the Bowie knife-i.e., the iron mistress-was forged out of steel into which was fused the fragment of a meteor ("For better or worse, the knife has a bit of heaven in it-or a bit of hell," says one of the characters). So miraculously keen and deadly is this weapon that with it Bowie can kill off any number of his enemies-when he is not demolishing them, that is, with pistols, sword or fists...
...with Understanding. The size and character of the C.I.O., its wage rates and pensions, and the political influence of organized labor are all a testament to Phil Murray's dedicated life. But Phil Murray was more than a fighter for labor. He was a man with a keen understanding of the individual's relationship to the world he lives in. Impersonally-as a union boss-Murray was tough and hard, demanding discipline and loyalty, determined and stubborn at the bargaining table. Personally he was emotional and softhearted, endowed with a twinkly-eyed kindliness and an honest humility...
...Editor Pine was hard at work on a new and more painstaking edition of Burke's Peerage, and Britain's proudest family trees were losing ancestors like autumn leaves. "Sir Bernard Burke," says Editor Pine, "was the greatest genealogist of his time, but he had a keen sense of romance." Where Editor Pine could find no justification for Founder Burke's romancing, he ruthlessly pruned...
...varsity will have considerably more depth than last year's squad. The fight for starting berths should be keen, with very few men now sure of a place on the first five. Captain Dick Lionette and high-scorer Bill Dennis seem fairly set to start, but Shepard is still far from announcing his lineup...