Word: keening
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...heartily sick of this talk of Russia and the democracies not being able to understand each other. Stalin has surrounded himself with as intelligent a group of banditti as ever started out to sack and dominate the universe. . . . They are ... keen of intellect, devoid of truth, moral precepts, ethical standards, and humanitarian motives...
Last week the Moscow evening daily, Vechernaya Moskva, told fascinated Muscovites (who get little crime news) the story of Serafima. The paper did not say what happened after her arrest, but keen readers noted that the stories always mentioned her in the past tense...
There were 118 newsmen aboard the press ship Appalachian at Bikini, and the competition was keen. Some of the boys, anxious to get their stories moving ahead of their rivals, wrote "eye-witnessers" in advance. One even faked an "interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...
...revival cycle, have been racing through a cinematic renaissance. No serious student of Comparative Comedy can afford to finesse this eighty-minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since elevated to tonier company as "The Magnificent Yankee"--an embassy villain who early in the film loses his coattails, and his dignity, to the omni-present shears of Harpo, the foursome's fair-haired and superbly equipped delinquent...
Mark Hopkins, Williams' philosopher-president: "[His enthusiasm] continued for three score years with no abatement. . . . He was then 85 years old, but his [passion for rediscovery remained] as keen in questions which he had discussed with six generations of students. . . 'I missed only one day last year,' he said . . . 'and then the young men sent a committee asking me not to venture out, since the great storm that was raging made the streets nearly impassable...