Word: avid
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...teach a freshman seminar about quilt making. Are you an avid quilt maker...
...maintained humane beliefs despite being pulled from school at the age of 12 and exposed to a near constant deluge of hateful propaganda, isolation and family pressure - seems to have been helped by a love of animals. A constant collector of pets - against his father's wishes - and an avid horseman, Omar's awareness of the madness of al-Qaeda was fueled in part by several acts of animal cruelty by his father's men. When they lived in Sudan, one of the family guards killed Omar's pet monkey by running it over with a truck, explaining that...
...avid squash player from a squash-loving family, Hill at first found himself unable to practice his sport except on weekends...
...tweeting and retweeting the Trafigura-related messages know precisely what the story was about, but some tweets contained links to websites that provided pieces of the puzzle. By lunchtime, the text of Farrelly's question had been widely circulated. Bloggers also supplied their interpretations of events. The comedian and avid Twitterer Stephen Fry galvanized his more than 800,000 followers into action with the following tweet containing links to two brief online reports of the legal battle: "Outrageous gagging order. It's in reference to the Trafigura oil dumping scandal. Grotesque and squalid." (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...
CLIFTON MALONEY, husband of New York Representative Carolyn Maloney, after summiting Cho Oyu, the sixth tallest mountain in the world, on Sept. 25. The 71-year-old avid outdoorsman, who was said to be in excellent health, was found dead the following morning...