Word: keening
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...commend the action of the press associations, newspapers, broadcasting companies and photographic agencies who have cooperated. . . . It is true that many people can see these ships as they arrive. ... It is also true that enemy agents can report these movements; but it seems to me only sportsmanlike that the keen American press refrain from giving a report of these ships for it the benefit of press's Britain's enemies. ...." As it was, the press's self-censorship merely concealed from the U.S. public a fact that was not even mildly camouflaged from German officials, whom...
...greatness of letters is in the mind they reveal. Pollock's mind was keen, erudite, somewhat suspicious, drily humorous, shyly human. Holmes's mind had a larger quality. There is nothing like battle to mature the mind it does not destroy. The bullet that passed through Holmes's neck at Antietam lodged in his brain. He lived the rest of his life as if the words with which he closed his 90th birthday address were momently true: "Death plucks my ear and says Live-I am coming." He lived with the wise irreverence of a soldier...
...lived like Windy McPherson's son, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks in Clyde, Ohio. With a boy's keen eyes he had seen the hates, passions and queer lives that lie just be hind the drab fagade of a small...
...first place the H.A.A. hasn't got the money to finance the trip out to Michigan and in the second place Franny isn't too keen about spending two more dreary weeks of training. Paddling over a mile a day up and down the pool is boring enough when the rest of the team is doing it with you, but when you're all alone it's duller than Monday night at the Raymor...
...noted with keen interest your item in the Press section of the Feb. 17 issue-"Often sued for libel, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has never sued in return." Is there not an error here? In 1911 Hearst filed a $500,000 libel suit against Collier...