Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the deepest sorrow that we have learned of the death of Bob Doyle. His loss has saddened all the Indonesian people and left those of us who knew him with a deep sense of personal loss. He was a fine man and a keen observer of events. We held him in the highest esteem and affection...
...sharp sword of schism fell last week upon the Christian Science Church. Keen-eyed Scientists found the news in a small story buried among the ads on page 2 of the Christian Science Monitor: "The Mother Church ... in Boston, Massachusetts, received from the Fourth Church of Christ Scientist, Rochester, N.Y., notice of its withdrawal as a branch of the Mother Church...
...Small Doubt. Would Arcaro ride him in the Derby Keen-eyed, banana-nosed Eddie wore the expression of a faintly satisfied but still skeptical banker, still trying to make up his mind about a big loan. Eddie wanted to see what Hill Prince would do in this week's second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. "He's just as good as he was last year," Arcaro said. "But he's never had to go more than 6á furlongs in a race. Some people doubt he can go for distance and might hang...
White-haired, keen-eyed Sam Kennedy, Iowa's biggest onion and potato grower, last week finished a distasteful task. Across a 40-acre field on his farm near Clear Lake, Farmer Kennedy dumped 30 carloads of red and yellow globe onions. He put them there to rot. Like many another grower, Kennedy had been caught when onion prices, unsupported by Government props, collapsed a fortnight...
...complete control over all artificial rainmaking. Undisturbed by such legalisms Meteorologist Howell pressed on with his plans, hoped to begin "stimulating" clouds this week. If his rainmaking solved New York's shortage, it might affect the fortunes of all the world's cities. If the competition became keen, it would also raise a horrendous lawyer's question: Who owns the clouds...