Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived in Spain and maintains a keen interest in its life and problems, I found your treatment of that troubled country judicious and accurate...
...brooding person by nature." Discipline. Rene (she rhymes, it with keen) met Scott Carpenter in Boulder in 1947, when he was a university student. She was a movie house usherette and sang in a local Methodist church. A little more than a year later, they were married. As a new Navy wife in the 1950s, Rene got the basic training that pilots' wives have to expect-the hard discipline of waiting at home for word of safe landings...
...Coronation" Concerto prompted Serkin and Bernstein, Mannes and Graffman and Szell and Firkusny to exchange pleased glances. "Let's hear Beethoven's Opus 27 in E-flat," asked Leopold Mannes from the balcony. Block then eased his way into the Beethoven sonata fantasy with a keen intelligence that paid heed not only to detail but also to essential unity. Displaying versatility as well as virtuosity, Block played a cadenza from a Tchaikovsky concerto and a Liszt sonata. Chattering excitedly, the judges reached a verdict in 15 minutes, and this time Michel Block walked off with the prize...
...rugby club will kick off against Williams at 3:30 p.m. today on Soldiers Field in the first regular game of the season. The Williams team, just back from a spring trip to England, will be keen to win and hard to beat," according to Harvard Captain John Van Schalkwyk...
...Pakistan. First overnight stop: Rome, where thousands braved forbidding chill and rain to cheer her on rounds that included a formal call on President Giovanni Gronchi and an audience with Pope John XXIII, with whom she would converse in French. - Back to Africa bounded Ireland's choleric, keen-witted Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, the literary critic and critical diplomat who was chief of the U.N.'s Katanga force until he resigned in a huff over British and French policy in the Congo. New post for Dr. O'Brien: the vice-chancellorship of the University...