Would a state with a keen understanding of the power of propaganda be so willing to just throw away such a trove of information?
Manttan is keen to carry out research on that Burmese side of the railway as his father worked on that section.
And because millions of us are so keen to do just that, our behavioral habits are changing.
The Telegraph reports that he is fluent in Swahili and a keen zoologist.
What results is a kind of mashup concert, a virtuoso mixed-media DJ set tuned to a keen emotional pitch.
Nor, my dear, does your own mother always escape the keen edge of your vivacity.
So keen the blade, so soft the touch, the sleeper did not wake!
His keen eyes had perceived Mary Turner's graces of form, her loveliness of face.
She had meant to wait; but, with his keen eyes on her, she could not dissemble.
But you would pardon me if you knew how much I have suffered from it, and how keen my remorse has been.
c.1200, from Old English cene "bold brave," later "clever, wise," from Proto-Germanic *kan- "be able to" (see can). Original prehistoric senses seem to have been both "brave" and "skilled;" cognate with Old Norse kænn "skillful, wise," Middle Dutch coene "bold," Dutch koen, Old High German kuon "pugnacious, strong," German kühn "bold, daring." Sense of "eager" is from mid-14c. The meaning "sharp" is peculiar to English: of blades and edges early 13c., of sounds c.1400, of eyesight c.1720. A popular word of approval in teenager and student slang from c.1900.
"lament," 1811, from Irish caoinim "I weep, wail, lament," from Old Irish coinim "I wail." Related: Keened; keening. As a noun from 1830.
