Word: keens
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Holmes has had a keen interest in sports since his student days at Mount Vernon (N. Y.) High School, alma mater of such athletes as baseball's Ken Singleton and basketball's Ray Williams and Gus Williams. Holmes was an outfielder on the school's baseball team, but early on ("I was good field, no hit") he decided that journalism might be better suited to his talents. After graduation from City College of New York and the Michele Clark Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists, he got a job as a reporter at the Yonkers (N. Y.) Herald...
...solution. With working-class roots deep in the black valleys of South Wales-his father was a coal miner, his mother a district nurse-he virtually grew up in the Labor Party. Though he was an indifferent student who eked out a degree from University College, Cardiff, he was keen on rugby, talk and political action. His wife, whom he met at the university, was so politically oriented that she refused a wedding band made of South African gold. Working together, the Kinnocks won Neil a safe parliamentary seat...
...example of "ass-kicking" which I provided in the Wilson-Kelling paper originated with a Black police sergeant who is a hero among residents of public housing in Chicago. Residents know he cares and will work to protect them. He has a keen sense of injustice: he was reared in the terror of public housing preyed on by gangs. He is committed to assisting residents to control their own neighborhoods...
Maurice Chevalier. This keen, young, handsome French song-singer has long been a good reason for a trip to Paris. Now he has come to the U. S. Primarily he came to make motion pictures but, while the operator is changing the reels, Mr. Ziegfeld has captured him. Best songs: about Valentine, and M. et Mme. Elephant...
...Miller and Nesson help create interesting and exciting television. Through keen and probing questions, they quickly advance arguments and perhaps unintentionally, often make some reporters appear nervous and uncertain. "I think it's healthy for reporters to get their feet in the fire." Hewitt says Nesson remembers that just moments before "Viewpoint'"s airtime, in "Nightline'"s usual timeslot, moderator Ted Koppel told the assembled reporters. "You're about to confront the snarling tiger...