Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pennsylvania's James ("Big Red") Duff has not been very happy in the U.S. Senate. A man of action, he fidgets through monotonous debates and sees little point in questioning streams of witnesses before Senate committees. All last year he kept his keen political ear to the ground, listening for his chance to run for governor of Pennsylvania, a post he held with distinction from...
Sobo is noted as a strict tactician, and a keen student of gridiron techniques--both in offense and defuse. He did not reveal what offense he would use at Penn, but it is expected that he will continue the pattern set by Munger, a single wing, with a few mixtures...
Mendel said, "I think it's an ideal combination to have a teacher so experienced and so keen on athletics in a position where both qualities are needed. I don't see how we could get a better...
...whether the U.S. should extend to Pakistan its guarantee to defend other peoples' boundaries (by NATO pact, the U.S. has already promised to defend 13 nations, extending in a vast crescent from Iceland to Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey). A budget-conscious new U.S. Administration is also not keen to take on another $250 million worth of foreign obligations. Furthermore, the U.S. is aware that Pakistan wants a strong army not only to protect itself against Russia, but against India, which it passionately dislikes, largely because of the Kashmir dispute...
...them start the next war, and we'll come in two or three years later, after we've made a pile selling them stuff," or "If there had been a few bombs on New York in the last lot, they mighn't be so bloody keen now." It is not Communists who make these remarks...