Word: avid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the world, threadbare gamblers with avid eyes have dreamed of becoming "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo." But the man who came nearest to breaking the bank at Monte Carlo last month was no true gambler at all; he was the man who owned...
...tour progressed, the musicians in Panama hats, sport shirts and shorts, began to look less and less like a symphony orchestra. Most of them bought cameras and camera equipment in the PXs; some went about festooned with three cameras. So avid was the search for souvenirs that the airplane pilots would kid them: "Just tell us the next time you guys are going to buy another 2,000 Ibs. of stuff so we can get lighter by feathering the props...
Although this was only his team's first loss in the 25 game series the teams will play Abe Saperstein, the Globetrotter owner-coach was very worried. For he knows as well as anyone else that the people who filled up Boston Garden Monday night were far from avid basketball fans. It was a nondescript crowd, composed mainly of people who wanted to have a good time, see a few good shots, and which some fancy passing and dribbling...
...said to be on vacation, arrived in Casablanca and by luck turned up one local cop who was willing to talk. Albert Forestier was a tough, 25-year-old ex-racing cyclist and newspaperman who had joined the police force only a few months before. He was soon an avid vigilante as well, but when his friends bombed the home of his old editor, he turned sour. Albert's story to the French detectives was complete with names and dates. Before he could tell it to a judge and jury, however, he died in an automobile crash...
...works shown on these pages demonstrate, they are likely to represent diametrically opposed views of life and also of art itself. Amidst such diversity, new and broader concepts of art may well form, and when that happens Manhattan will become an art center as creative as it is already avid...