Word: keener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to me that union members should be held individually responsible for the be havior of their representatives. Perhaps the threat of a substantial fine might arouse a keener interest in how the votes are counted and how the money is spent...
...Berliner's password is "Mir kann keener"-"Nobody can put anything over on me"-and his instinctive reaction to totalitarianism, as it is to anything highfalutin, is a deflating wisecrack. The airlift memorial at which last week's anniversary ceremonies began is universally known to Berliners as "the Hunger Claw"; a modernistic postwar church that looks as though a train might pull into it at any moment is called "Jesus Station." When Berliners use the high-flown expressions coined to describe their city's cold-war role-"the beacon of freedom" or "the show window of democracy...
Must She Leave? But there was a keener observer: a hidden camera rigged by Psychoanalyst James Robertson. The camera's eye saw that the emotional damage to Laura had been far worse than doctors or parents suspected. Even at 2½ she could put on a brave-front part of the time, to hide deep distress. But in 24 hours she was beginning to withdraw from solicitous nurses. Soon she withdrew from her mother, resenting her visits because she could not understand why they had to end. Back home, Laura was markedly anxious and irritable for weeks; six months...
...considered making a small paper airplane out of it and sailing it into the Charles. But what the hell--why not let a townie go to the game? A warm flush of pity momentarily overwhelmed him as he thought of the deed, but it was replaced by a keener flush of something he chose to call maganimity--the feeling that one never stands as straight as when one stoops to help a child...
Prime Minister Nehru observed recently that Asians see today's world divided not between Communists and anti-Communists but "haves" and "have-nots." He includes the southern Asians in the latter group. Rising though it does from their desperate poverty, their demand for social and economic reform is keener because of the example of China's startling industrial expansion. Nehru sees this as a challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion, but in other countries it seems to be felt as a challenge to which democracy has no answer...