Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GENERAL, cross country runners are a self-sufficient lot. There is no necessity that they work together during a contest, at least not in the same way that a shortstop and second baseman must. And there is always an undercurrent of keen competition among team members. Coach McCurdy keeps detailed records of workout times and meet performances, and most runners are experts at memorizing these statistics and comparing them in a good-natured fashion...
...little more than wag a finger. Earlier this year, President Johnson succeeded in rolling back Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s price boosts of almost 5% with threats of diverting Government steel orders. The Administration has no such leverage over the car industry. Instead, it must count on the keen competition among automakers themselves to do the job of keeping prices down...
...really delighted," says Weiland about the re-alignment. "Bill knows the game inside out and has a keen interest in it. And Gene has worked with me at my hockey school. I'm looking forward to having him help with the varsity. Having two fellows like this in our program can't help but benefit Harvard hockey...
Tonal Anguish. What the audience did notice was that there was nothing minor about Maag's conducting talent. He has all the requirements for a superior conductor of Haydn and Mozart -a faultless sense of classical proportion and a keen ear for blended Mozartean sonority that allows important detail to come through crisply...
...College. "When I first went to England as a boy," he recalls, "I was swamped by that sea of white faces. I didn't even recognize people who had been my teachers, once they were immersed among their own kind." On the debating team at Epsom, he developed a keen gift for words and also played rugby; and in 1952 set the school record for the discus throw (115 ft. 81 in.). He is remembered at Oxford as a good history student?though his grades were only average?and for a bright red MG sports car, with which he frequently...