Word: keens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daily they reported on the condition of the athletes and gave predictions of noted authorities on the outcome of the nine-event meeting. President Hunter of the Cambridge University Athletic Club was quoted, "The meeting promises to be a keen struggle. The Americans will probably win the sprints, and we ought to pull off the long events, as it is well known that the Americans seldom run a good long race...
Longing for serenity and harmony, Sung emperors liked to turn for contrast to closeups of nature, developed a keen liking for small and intimate scenes. I Yuan-chi's Monkey and Cats, almost playful in both subject matter and execution, is an outstanding example. Such paintings so won the admiration of the Emperor that he awarded I Yuan-chi the commission of decorating a courtyard at his palace on the Yellow River plain...
...dark. For half an hour, while a massive and subtle scheme of revenge takes form before his eyes, the moviegoer has almost no idea what is really going on. But the suspense of wondering and the fun of guessing and the horror of watching are so keen that the audience follows like a lamb to the ultimate slaughter...
...audiences-in inverse proportion to their importance. He is a minusculist, with a passion for the little ideas and the Little People-apparently not so much because they are people as because they are little. But for all that, Author Chayefsky has a metropolitan instinct as keen as a pigeon's, and an old cab driver's mystical sense of the city's meaning...
...combining amatory advice with a rake's recollections, scandalized Emperor Augustus when it first appeared about 1 B.C. Never had the Loves read as well in English as in the new translation by Rolfe Humphries, longtime Latin teacher and poet, who combines current lingo and idiom with a keen sense for the classic, a roguish twinkle with catholic taste. For a review, see BOOKS, Latin Without Tears...