Word: avid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrow, pale, somewhat dead face, which is not. however, insensitive. Standing or sitting, he holds himself watchfully, easily erect, with great dignity, conscious of who he is. He is well educated, by the standards of his profession, and an avid reader...
...visit to Paris, the Ago Khan said that he was still hard at work on his forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season of my life. In England alone...
...Hutchinson, Kans. might have had the Mona Lisa on exhibit last week. "They want to keep looking," said the librarian happily. "We have to shoo them out." The big attraction at the library's annual all-Kansas art show: one of the first U.S. exhibits of an avid Sunday painter and onetime Kansas boy. His name: Dwight D. Eisenhower. On opening day, 1,500 people flooded the library's tiny gallery; by week's end, 3,500 more had come to see how Ike paints...
...Iron fences. One of the more grisly tasks is investigating suicides. According to Lieutenant Paul Touchette, his squad has never been able to save a Harvard man who had decided to become a late Harvard man. "At least it's nice to be able to say," remarks Touchette, an avid Harvard booster and member of the Band, "that Harvard men do a professional job, and never botch...
...HAVE BEEN AN AVID READER OF TIME...