Word: avid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still holding my sides. I imagine the avid interest for reading about "the impingements of mahogany" will garner many new readers for Miss Winsor...
...British newspaper reader, like his American cousin, is an avid crossword-puzzle fan, but Britain's puzzles are as different from those in the U.S. as chess is from checkers. Most U.S. puzzles give clues that are at best merely obscure, e.g., "a device to fill the lower pane of a painted window" in six letters.† British fans expect their clues to be witty, ingenious, arch and wildly erudite...
...striking fact was that most of the avid investigators were Democrats. Republicans would say this proved that the Democratic Administration was so rotten that even the Democrats couldn't stand it. Democrats would take the line that it merely proved their party's diligence in cleaning house...
...doorsteps, at 5? each. In the process, he stumbled across a large building filled with books - the provincial library - and, upon inquiring, learned he could borrow two books a week. He recalls: "They were the first serious books I read. A universe of light was opened wide to my avid mind...
Heaven or Hell? Apparently unmoved by the pleas of one & all, Stevenson stuck to his now familiar story. While avid newsmen lay on the floor of an adjoining room eavesdropping under a heavy curtain, Stevenson told a "secret" session of the Illinois delegation that he was not "temperamentally, physically or mentally" equipped for the presidency. Insisting once again that all he wanted to be was governor of Illinois, he recalled the story of the man who had been asked whether he wanted to go to heaven or hell. The answer: "I want to stay right here...