Word: keens
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...Kerry, he was none too keen when his handlers took him off the road for four precious days so that he could go to "debate camp" in Wisconsin. Hadn't he been training off and on all summer? Hadn't he memorized all those briefing books they kept sending to the plane? Hadn't he spent two whole days in Nantucket, Mass., in August, practicing, practicing, practicing, especially the foreign policy answers...
Donald has warm sentiments to his readers. He responds to a dozen or so letters from readers each year, most of whom are average people with a keen interest in Lincoln. Similarly, while at Harvard Donald advised about 65 doctoral students. He says he thinks of them as his children and of their children as his grandchildren...
HSPH, which this year purchased half of its campus-wide electrical load from wind energy, is also keen on achieving a strong turnout. HSPH buildings that meet the Go Cold Turkey challenge will have their wind energy commitment extended for another fiscal year, helping to power those buildings into...
...long, and the songs are slow. Guitar solos, like that in the last three minutes of “Wedding Song”—a musical echo of Palace Music’s “Marriage,” albeit three times as long—keen deep into the later minutes of tracks, which seem to have a hard time ending; most simply fade out over the instrumentation or have all instruments hit a staccato last note in an extremely forced sense of closure...
...rock-star moves were amusing, but during “Welcome to the Occupation,” Stipe dropped the posturing for a keen, insistent cry of “Listen to me,” instantly bringing the focus back to the music...