Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since arisen. Many of the victims made their living as loan sharks. This is big, if disorganized, business in Boston's lower crust. The "vigorish," or profit, is estimated at $1,000,000 a week. With that kind of take, the competition for trade is bound to be keen. As might be expected, the surplus of bodies has been accompanied by a dearth of witnesses and evidence. Just five of the 43 killings have been solved. Bay Staters who derive comfort from the gradual depopulation of the underworld may be deceiving themselves. On at least one occasion, an uninvolved...
...time...I thought he packed a little weight with the others. Well, he does. But not enough. Not enough, for example, to justify calling me every other night around one in the morning to tell me what he expects of Charles [the candidate], on the basis of his own keen analysis of Austria before Dollfuss. The hours I've spent listening to that chucklehead outline a strategy which would be just swell if only Consolo [the incumbent governor] were Franz Josef!...I'd rather spend my time chewing the fat with One-Eyed Danny Geegan of the Police Athletic League...
...Bunk Detector. What the Now Generation possesses in every stratum is a keen ability to sense meaning on many levels at the same time. In its psychological armory it counts a powerful array of weapons-both defensive and offensive. Foremost among them...
...last year went begging. In 1966, about one-third of the engineering jobs available were unfilled, partly because so many seniors went on to graduate school. This year more firms than ever plan to recruit on more campuses, and Endicott expects that the hiring competition will be "very, very keen...
...islands of the Caribbean, Barbados has never been out of English hands since it was settled in 1627. Driving is on the left; neat hedges or stone walls mark property lines; the effective civil service and the police are very British; there is tea at 4, and everyone is keen on cricket. In fact, everything is so teddibly, teddibly British that the capital of Bridgetown has a Trafalgar Square, complete with statue of Lord Nelson, that was built before London...