Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the Cologne Offensive. Said TIME: "Nothing in the immediate prospect before Omar Bradley directly suggested the end of a war, or even the end of a campaign. But in the eye of his keen, analytical mind General Bradley could see beyond the belching, jerking guns, the wallowing tanks, the struggling infantrymen. The armies on the south flank of the Allied Line were moving faster than he, because they were exploiting a weakness which already existed. Bradley was busy creating a weakness-one which may be fatal to Germany...
...game fish, says Fishing, is "any fish caught on rod and line, putting up any fight, and not thrown back in disgust by the angler." That includes even the "detested, despised, and berated" carp, a "keen-brained root-eater" as hard to hook as a confirmed bachelor...
...Noiseless as spectres, Delano and the two maidens slid into the [ruffians' den]; and the young lieutenant . . . instantly singled out the chief from among his sleeping comrades, and with one fierce thrust, sent his cutlass directly through his body, and with such force, that the keen weapon was deeply sunk in the floor." The climax of The Signal; or, The King of the Blue Isle, by E. Curtiss Hine, was at hand. When Delano had finished his bloody work, "three hundred corpses lay strewn about the room...
Spinning out his story in a series of flashback monologues, Novelist Foote has a keen eye for the drama of a small-town courtroom in the South and an unmistakable talent for reporting the impact of human passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...
...Crime," observes one of the characters, "is only a left-handed form of human endeavor." To dramatize the point, the picture sets itself the task of probing half a dozen major characters and offering keen glimpses of as many minor ones. Among those in the rogues' gallery: a ruthless hooligan (Sterling Hayden) with a twisted sense of honor and self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony...