Word: keening
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...four dog races a week. Henceforth there will be but one, on Saturdays. In 1939 there were 12,000 dogs on the tracks, now there are 6,000. Most of the retired dogs were not destroyed, but made into pets or put out to stud. Bidding is still keen for good dogs at sales, where a promising pup will fetch 300 to 400 guineas (a guinea is currently worth $4.22). A greyhound pup knocked down for 100 guineas is considered practically a selling plater...
...edition of the Crimson fencing team finished the season at New York cut to pieces by the keen swordsmen of the other members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing League. In Saturday's meet, the fencers had little success in coping with the superior duelers of such aggregations as N. Y. U. and Army, and did not take one individual place in the day's events...
...permitted fraudulent election practices, thereby disgracing the uniform he wore. That was why the two men faced each other now. Wrists had been band aged, heavy double-edged sabers examined. The points were sharp as needles; front cutting edges "and the first third of each back edge were razor keen...
This claim the scholarly Socialist Blum countered with a tirade as eloquent and intellectually keen as any in his long career. The raw edges of his mustache waved like flags as he charged that "the best-armed army in the world will go under if the commanders don't know how to inspire the will to fight." With Gamelin mute, said he, the onus of war guilt was on political leaders, and, if so, where were the still-imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and ex-Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel...
...dead reckoning, Columbus had few equals. Wrote a shipmate at the end of the Second Voyage: "But there is one thing that I wish you to know, that, in my humble opinion, since Genoa was Genoa, no other man has been born so magnanimous and so keen in practical navigation as the above-mentioned Lord Admiral: for, when navigating, by only looking at a cloud or by night at a star he knew what was going to happen and whether there would be foul weather; he himself both conned and steered at the helm; and when the storm had passed...