Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Happily, we will not be entirely deprived of his wisdom. In his new duties, Grunwald will be involved in the editorial affairs of all Time Inc. publications, so TIME will continue to benefit from his keen journalistic...
...championing of black nationalist movements in Africa, Robeson became a socialist. Never a very sophisticated and self-critical socialist, to be sure; the leftist Harlem newspaper he published through the 1950s often presented facile and sometimes unrealistic analyses of black urban politics and culture. But Robeson never was a keen student of historical change; his Marxism stemmed from that same universalist vision, that dream that all other blacks might someday feel, like him, part of the family...
...document, Bose says, citing such minor projects as building renovations and determining where to place bicycle racks on the campus. Bose says that while he was writing the report, he wanted it to be more specific, and also to include an in-house document. Most Harvard officials were not keen on the idea, he says...
TIME'S story about the Newfoundland dog [Sept. 5] regrettably made no reference to the most famous Newf of them all: Captain Meriwether Lewis' faithful companion Scannon, purchased for $20 in Pittsburgh and a keen and able member of the corps of discovery during a journey of more than 6,000 miles. Scannon sometimes swam out to catch fledgling geese for the pot, helped keep ferocious grizzlies of the Missouri River country away from camp, and in May 1805, was credited with helping turn away a frightened buffalo that came close to trampling Lewis one night...
...American team won that inaugural encounter 8-4 and by the time the next match was held back in Scotland at St. Andrews, the Walker Cup competition had burgeoned into a keen transatlantic rivalry. In 1924, it was formally decided to hold the match biennially in alternate countries...