Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West 103rd Street, Mrs. Fred Townley answered the telephone, gave up a small chunk of hard-won anonymity. Married for 25 years to a law-trained businessman, Miss America of 1922 and 1923-the only double winner of the contest-told Gossipist Earl Wilson that she was less than keen about a free trip to this year's rite at Atlantic City (see SHOW BUSINESS). Explained the former Mary Campbell: "I got so tired of the publicity I didn't ever want to hear about Miss America again." Pressed for her life story, the onetime Miss Ohio said...
...Range: Forrest regions in the temperate and sub-artic parts of both old and new world." The cherry-headed mangabey, read another sign, makes "speach-like sounds," while the eland runs in "large heards." The bear is famed for "it's strength and ferocity," and ostriches for "there keen sight and wary nature." Acting Zoo Director Vincent M. Mc-Namara promised that the signs would be replaced-when the zoo had enough money-but not, some thought, until the sign-painting creatures in the monkey house got a better grasp of spelling...
...businessmen studied the new autos with a keen eye, they also looked long at another economic factor to be reckoned with in the months to come: inflation. Everyone hears a lot about inflation; the talk is fraught with semantic difficulties because everyone has a different definition of the word, and thus a different assessment of the danger. For a sensible definition and an idea of how far away the U.S, is from real inflation, see BUSINESS, Inflation: Unlikely...
India's Nehru, initially pleased by Russia's invitation, was now less keen to participate at the risk of promoting Nasserism and looking like a Soviet stooge. France's Charles de Gaulle continued to play his lone hand in the grand manner. Unmoved by Anglo-American disapproval, unshaken by the fact that every other NATO nation opposed his position in an impassioned 5½-hour session of the NATO Council, De Gaulle continued to call for private five-power chats, somewhere in Europe in the "necessary conditions of objectivity and serenity," and never mind about gathering...
...this instance, the milieu is Jewish. But Schulman, though a Jew, has presented it with restraint: he was under no illusions of producing a "social drama," and he avoided the easy temptation of exaggerating the Jewish elements. Yet he shows a keen ear for Jewish speech; and has, without falling into mawkishness, captured just the right amount of protective close-knittedness so characteristic of Jewish family life...