Word: keening
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Like all submarinemen, lookouts must have sound health and intelligence and a stable temperament. Keen eyesight and color sense beyond the average are needed. But the most important quality in a good lookout is what Dr. Shilling calls "motivation." He must search actively, not passively. He must have a desire to see which overcomes the dulling effect...
...rapidly did this mechanical wonder beget thousands of other mechanical wonders sputtering over the land that young Edsel had no time for college. He pulled on greasy overalls, went into the shop at 19. The lessons were hard, the hours long, the examinations unexpected. His keen blue eyes sparkling, Henry loped through the shop tangling routine, creating problems, leaving them for young Edsel to solve...
...grandfather, also his little trick of cocking his head towards anyone talking to him. He showed he had a mind of his own by turning Catholic to marry, is now a lieutenant in the Navy. Benson Ford, 23, alone of the grandchildren, has his grandfather's keen blue eyes and much of his tremendous energy. Rejected in the draft (he is almost blind in one eye) he got special War Department permission to enlist, is now in officers' training school. Both he and Henry II are directors in the company. The youngest son, William Clay Ford, just...
...July 30 he will be 80. But his blue eyes are still sharp, his mind disconcertingly keen. Hours of his days are still spent dogtrotting through the Rouge and Willow Run shops, poking his long nose into obscure corners, knowing everything that is going on. At no time during the long years when Edsel sat in the presidency did his father permit him to rule alone. As Henry explained: "He knows some things better than I do and I know some things better than he does." One thing which Henry Ford knows better than anyone - while he lives...
...torn, tattered bodies were borne to the dance hall in neighboring Mullaghduff, where there was to have been a dance that night. From villages miles around the women came, with black shawls over their heads, to keen beside the coffins. This was the saddest wartime tragedy that had come to neutral Eire...