Word: keening
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Eddie Rickenbacker liked Russia. He liked the passionate conviction of ultimate victory, the keen and capable Red pilots, the fertile look of tilled fields spread out below and the way the Russians deal with absenteeism in factories...
...perhaps you have noticed, some of the instructors at the School really have a keen sense of humor. This is borne out by the story one officer tells of his experiments in mixing drinks. Recently he came up with a particularly lethal potion as is evidenced by the name he gave it: "My Heart Stood Still...
Does an actor earn his pay if he has not memorized his part? When The Petrified Forest was revived last month in Cleveland, Eddie Dowling (Shadow and Substance, The Time of Your Life) played the leading role. For four nights keen-eyed playgoers caught the actor nonchalantly reading his lines from manuscript...
Favorite: Joseph Lyter Donaldson, 52, candidate of the State machine. Gaunt-framed Donaldson is bank president in his home town of Carrollton, and as State Highway Commissioner has been the chief patronage dispenser in Governor Keen Johnson's Democratic administration...
Just west of the hard-fighting Britons were the Canadians under 40-year-old Major General Guy Simonds, youngest commander of his rank in the Canadian Army. Lieut. General A. G. L. McNaughton, commander of all Canadian forces, fixed upon keen, slender Guy Simonds two years ago as the coming man of the Canadian Army. This week Guy Simonds and his men, unopposed in the first days of the invasion, apparently were up against the remnants of the Germans' 15th Armored Division, which had retreated across Sicily and joined the Görings. The 29th (motorized) division, wiped...