Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief non-academic activity is being chairman of the board of the Builders Iron Foundry in Providence, a factory turning out measuring and mixing devices. He also is an avid sailor, and he and Mrs. Chafee like nothing better than cruising around the Cape...
Ecker brought back from his summer tour a report of avid interest in what he had to say about the practices and philosophy of newsgathering at every campus he visited. Questions were searching and analytical, and the students seemed to be seeking practical answers to what is new in journalism and why it is better or worse than what it has replaced. They weren't interested in drafting lofty codes of a New Journalism...
...former classmate of Evans, I consider him an intellectual casualty. He was an avid worker in the recent election campaign of Senator Butler of Maryland, and thoroughly believed the speeches made-a thing no thinking person does of any campaign speech...
...vote seemed governed by two essentially negative sentiments: discontent and routine. The vote for the Communists was probably as much the French workers' continued protest against still-too-low wages and rising prices as an avid option for Moscow from doctrinaire party members. Gaullist votes mostly recorded dissatisfaction with Third Force bumbling...
...propose without being accepted. How to propose realistically and how to keep their acceptances and refusals in accord with your whims--immediate and future--Is the crux of the perfect line." Or so said "Vanity Fair," a magazine which was avid reading material for the Class of '26. Other literati were getting free seats to "Oedipus Rex" at the Opera House by being part of a Theban mob which ran up and down the theatre during one scene. "I think that Harvard students make a very creditable mob..." the show's director said...