Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Reader Weber: "Quite a few years ago when I was in college, my roommate and I both subscribed to TIME, read it avidly, even copied TIME'S style in writing to each other when we were apart for summer vacation. The Christmas before we graduated, we were both stumped for a present for each other. We could not afford anything that the other really needed. Finally, we decided that since both our TIME subscriptions expired in December, we would just give TIME to each other. This was not only the perfect gift, but also completely reciprocal. This continued...
...There must be many an intellectual, avid newspaper reader-even editor -who finds himself reading regularly the survey offered him by magazines, although the dateline may be three to seven days behind his own morning paper-not so much for the additional informative items, or the 'cute' pattern in which the facts are laid, but for the perspective in the properly arranged facts . . . It is the messenger in the Greek tragedy who always gives a better commentary of the battle than the hero or his arms-bearer who shout bits of information around during the encounter. The newspaper...
...canny crew of scotch boatmen, High and Dry is best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...
...Lutheran Krister Stendahl, 33, one of Sweden's most brilliant Christian scholars, authority on the first century school of St. Matthew, avid apostle of Sweden's highly intellectual Christian youth movement...
...airliner and, said the tabloids, the damage, compared to Edna's, was inestimable. Obviously relishing every wolf call and whistle, Marilyn spent her time between a few days of picture-shooting (The Seven Year Itch) at a few nightclubs and Broadway shows, and with a few hundred avid autograph-hunting youngsters...