Word: keen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first fortnight of the campaign, Labor's keen, highly organized drive in the crucial "marginal" constituencies had reduced the Tories' once commanding public opinion poll lead to a slim 1½ points. At first, while Labor bored...
...dragged on. the Boxers posted rewards for dead foreigners-50 taels ($35) for a male. 40 for a female, 30 for a child. Only three rewards were collected. Once, when a drunken Russian stumbled out of the compound and was shot, the competition to recover the body was so keen that eleven Chinese were picked off by snipers. Yet for a time it looked as if sheer weight of numbers might win out. and Author Fleming offers some interesting notes on the curious ways of people who expect to die-but hope to do so as ladies and gentlemen...
...religious practice, where church attendance is regarded as secondary to theological speculation. This physical separation from the centers of religious gathering encourages eclecticism and free choice among religious doctrines, and is considered by most observers, local ministers included, to be rather a good thing. "Interest in religion here is keen and sharp," the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the First Congregational Church has asserted, "one uses his head as much as anything else in being religious." A similar view was expressed by the Rev. Ronald D. Maitland, Acting Chaplain of Christ Church (Episcopal): "It's a very good thing that...
Myth No. I. Jimmy Hoffa, the committee charges, has shown a keen interest in making money for Jimmy Hoffa. Tracing the web of Hoffa's financial dealings proved to be difficult, because he deals entirely in cash, leaving no personal-check stubs or canceled checks behind. Asked to explain this peculiarity, Hoffa bristles and replies that as a U.S. citizen he has a "right" to deal in cash if he wants...
...Oklahoma eight years ago. His past is murky. His body is tragically misshapen: he was born without legs, with a right arm that ends at the elbow, a left that withers into two malformed fingers. But the face of L. D. Tallent, 41, is alertly handsome, his mind razor keen, his ambition huge...