Word: keenness
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...baccalaureat is but a tradition, a form in like measure uninspiring to speaker and listener. It is without doubt more difficult of performance than an after-dinner speech. The speaker cannot crack jokes with the same freedom: while the audience cannot endure the boredom with the same keen delight as when resting upon a full meal. Moreover the sermon is never so sorry that one willing to, can not individualize it profitably. And what other earthly use is there for the Sunday preceding commencement...
...from the shock of the commuter-train bombings in Madrid, the U.S. is winning the war on terrorism. With Bush's election campaign picking up speed, the stakes for finding al-Zawahiri and bin Laden have never been higher, especially now that terrorist forces seem to have developed a keen eye for political calendars. The Islamists charged with slaughtering more than 200 Madrid commuters struck on March 11. Three days later Spanish voters tossed out the ruling party allied with the U.S. in the war in Iraq. Incoming Socialist Party Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who called the Iraq...
...these grants were awarded Sunday night, and of them, H Bomb’s request was the only one funded in full. Council deputies apparently have keen senses for dark irony...
...over a permanent constitution. Sistani did, however, advise his supporters on the Iraqi Governing Council to sign the document, because failure to do so would have provoked a crisis that could delay the July 1 hand-over of power by the U.S. And Sistani and the Shiites are so keen to see the U.S. out that they're willing to deal with the Kurdish veto later. (The Kurds, incidentally, believe the interim constitution granted them a de facto state that included Kirkuk - a misconception that could trigger a civil war, and, to the extent that it is shared in Turkey...
...along. In the scores of bridges, airports and train stations the architect has designed throughout Europe and more recently in the U.S., Calatrava has brought to the world of travel an incomparable high-tech lyricism. His structures speak plainly of engineering, of struts and cables, white concrete pylons and keen-edged glass louvers. But at the same time they suggest unmistakably the pliant forms of nature--an eye, a torso, a bird in flight--that inspire...