Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope's plea came two days after four curial cardinals held a rare press conference to cite statistics showing how severe is the shortage of priests in the church. "Why conceal the fact," said Gabriel Cardinal Garrone, head of the Congregation for Catholic Education, "that our concern is keen and profound...
...syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, he became a sportswriter "with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...
...company's key assets have been a keen sense of new markets and the cold cash to advertise for them. The aggressive salesmanship started in the 1930s when American Home hired on as president a hard-selling toothpowder (Dr. Lyons) executive, Alvin Brush. Brush soon horrified traditionalists by ordering Anacin, which had been marketed as an ethical drug, to be put on sale at drugstore counters. The $50 million current yearly sales of Anacin are more than double American Home's total sales...
...only new men in the boat are Evans at stroke and Brooks at three. Competition for the seats was keen. Evans, who rowed six in last year's junior varsity, beat out Monk Terry, who stroked the lightweight varsity last spring, and the 1967 stroke Ian Gardiner. Today Terry strokes the heavyweight junior varsity and Gardiner sits at bow in the third varsity boat. Kit Wise strokes the third boat...
Deferred Sandwich. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and portly, Cohen has a keen sense of the possible. With an eye on the generation ahead, he has always been willing, if necessary, to sacrifice cherished legislative objectives so long as he gets at least a small piece of what he wants. This morsel, Cohen believes, can be fattened a little year by year until eventually the legislation resembles what he wanted in the first place. An aide calls his technique "salami slicing." One slice does not amount to much, but eventually there is enough for a sandwich...