Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Incumbent John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky's courtly Mr. Republican, won a thunderous victory over Democrat Keen Johnson, who came out of the business world (vice president of Reynolds Metals) to run on a record logged during a single term as state Governor 17 years...
...There is keen competition among embalming supply houses to help make the dead look healthier than their mourners...
...nationalist leaders last year organized a boycott of Ismaili shops, and the Aga Khan is now advising his followers to shift into other lines-"small industry, the professions, the civil service." In every country, the Aga Khan interviews key Cabinet ministers to find out what industries the government is keen on developing, and sets up a local
...performance-letting the audience call the tune or enacting Dostoevsky in ten seconds-seems a mistake. At times, too, there is conflict between their manner, which is essentially a freewheeling one, and their matter, which demands the foreplanning of the revue sketch or blackout. Their eye is as deadly keen as their tongue can be brilliantly sharp; but when they impersonate, when the glance counts for more than its object or the inflection means more than the actual word, they occasionally lack a final polish. Still and all, they are frequently hilarious...
Kentucky. In a dark and bloody ground of national political contention, Kentuckians are paying much more attention to the presidential race than to their own drab Senate campaign between Incumbent John Sherman Cooper and former Governor Keen Johnson. Able Republican Cooper, onetime U.S. Ambassador to India, is probably more liberal than his challenger. Johnson, a prominent businessman (vice president of Reynolds Metals), is locally famed for his frugality: as Governor (1939-43), he ran a tight treasury, spent less than the legislature allotted, liquidated the state debt and ran up a surplus of $10 million. Cooper is ahead...