Word: keens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time was right. What better time than amidst the acclaim and relief of an Indo-Chinese peace? He put it to his Cabinet: he could meet Malenkov at Geneva, in the happy aftermath of agreement. Or Berlin, or Stockholm might provide a suitable rendezvous: Churchill was not too keen on going to Moscow, which might look too much like a pilgrimage. Eden objected. He was already worried that the U.S. might spoil the happy atmosphere by bluntly condemning the partition of Indo-China and refusing to guarantee the settlement...
...Chef Eisenhower a "Barbecue King" model (capacity of its four electrically powered racks: 20 chickens, 40 to 50 Ibs. of spareribs, eight 14-lb. hams. Cost: $400). The President hesitated momentarily, then said: "I'm afraid that is one gift I couldn't refuse." The President, a keen student of Western lore, exhibited a few deficiencies in his learning while signing a bill benefiting the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin...
...Spanish Civil War refuses to lie still in its political grave. It keeps haunting memories, arguments, books and loyalty files. For countless Americans now over 35, it was the first great meeting with history, the first passionate political love affair-or hate binge. Scores of keen-eyed witnesses, including Britain's late George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia (TIME, May 19, 1952), have shown that the war was not a simple melodrama of Franco vice v. Loyalist virtue, but a far more complex tragedy in which the Loyalist side itself fought a kind of civil war within a civil...
...native of Elkins Park, Pa. . . . I had an understandably keen interest in the Wright-designed synagogue [TIME, May 31] that is planned for my quiet suburban community. Esthetically I am inexperienced, but somehow I feel that Mr. Wright's inspiration is about as appropriate to its proposed location as Connie Mack Stadium is to suburban Singapore...
Citation: "World famous political scientist, anthropologist and educator; keen scholar . . . loyal representative of this nation as principal director, department of trusteeship, the United Nations . . . People are his chief concern, and nations are his classroom...