Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's style is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in keen focus in this novel about chicanery in high places...
...name of the game is Swotting the Americans for Fun and Profit, a sport for which the British are terribly keen, if not particularly adept. Two current swots offer little fun, less profit...
Until the moment of revelation, in fact, Kamensky remains a pale figure, repeatedly upstaged by other characters and by Dame Rebecca herself, whose keen eye for detail alights frequently on the tableaux of fin-de-siecle Europe and the Byzantine complexities of expatriate Russian life...
...must have the median education for his job. Some will be able to hold the better jobs without the appropriate diploma. But the education of whites is increasing rapidly as well, and will not fall far short of the standards underlying the above figures so the competition will be keen...
...compliments on the informative, accurate, and very readable article explaining those Lilliputian giants-integrated circuits [Sept. 2]. As an electronics engineer working toward a doctorate in the field, I feel a very keen anticipation for the Dick Tracy wrist TV communicator and the domestic computerized control center in each home-both well within economic possibility because of those highly processed wafers of sand (silicon). You have removed part of the mystery that the general public feels surrounding the operation and fabrication of such unfathomably tiny circuits...