Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earl letter to MacLeish said "very few people understand why an oath is necessary...and it seems...that you are one of them...I am not again (sic) civil rights, but I do feel that when a too avid pursuit of it imperils our national security, someone should speak...
Said the duke, an avid ornithologist: "I know nothing about pictures. If it had been deer or birds-but pictures...
However, British informants said yesterday that Prime Minister Clement Attlee will urge President Truman, in their Washington talks starting Monday, to avid war with Red China at all costs. Associates said Attlee believed that this is the only way to preserve western unity...
...unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice was shrill and slightly cockney. While indubitably a born writer, he was not in the least an esthete -indeed, he compared Esthete Proust's Remembrance of Things Past to "a 20-year-old store catalogue." Though a staunch socialist and avid student of political economy, he considered Karl Marx "the worst type of bore," and he summed up the Soviet image of the revolutionary worker as a "pithacoid Proletarian, dishevelled and semi-nude...
TIME, the best news magazine in the country, featuring [May 8] the New York Times, the best newspaper in the world, constitutes a rare journalistic treat for any avid reader...