Word: keens
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...proper rank'/ Tastes like hairspray". The nervy excitement of a first date in Could Well Be In is portrayed with a tenderness that softens the lack of couth: "I saw this thing on ITV the other week/ It said if she plays with her hair then she's probably keen/ She's playing with her hair well regularly, so I reckon I could well be in." To some that might seem like adolescent blather, but like Eminem in the U.S., Skinner draws the listener into the dark, angry, occasionally almost sweet thoughts of a British lad. And thanks...
...confused Cyprus with Crete on a stamp issued to mark the May 1 expansion of the European Union. Ireland - current holder of the rotating E.U. presidency - issued the stamp in the form of a map showing the organization's 15 old and 10 new member states. But keen-eyed philatelists quickly pointed out that the island that was supposedly Cyprus was of the same shape, and in the same location, as Crete. The postal service said it had used "cartographic license" to squeeze far-flung Cyprus onto...
...past months, a wave of films set in Japan or with a Japanese theme have flooded theaters, from the anime-influenced Kill Bill and Matrix series to stranger-in-a-strange-island tales Lost in Translation and The Last Samurai. Hollywood has revealed a keen interest in the Asian nation, and in huge numbers, Americans have reciprocated the fascination...
...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...