Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thermometer or Tool? He and Chairman Nourse were constantly at loggerheads. Nourse, onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, who thought of himself as an economist and nothing else, stuck pretty close to economic orthodoxy. Keyserling, an avid Government planner, was further to the left. The council's third member, John D. Clark, skittered around vaguely somewhere in between. The chief difference between Nourse and Keyserling was in their interpretations of CEA's job. Nourse thought it was chiefly to hold a thermometer under the nation's tongue and dispassionately report the results. Keyserling thought...
...Avid Durante followers won't appreciate "The Great Rupert." The plot, a rather juvenile and absurd one, certainly confines Durante's talents, and the man himself appears less exuberant than in some of his earlier pictures...
...produced the report recommending a 70-group Air Force. Last week the President nominated bald, sharp-eyed Thomas Knight Finletter for the job. Never a flyer himself, 56-year-old Tom Finletter comes from a socialite Philadelphia family and is a Manhattan corporation lawyer, a United World Federalist, an avid student of history and an expert in international economics. When appointed to the Air Commission, he knew little about air power but he impressed all comers with his conscientious fairness and his ability to grasp and marshal facts. After the Finletter Commission report was finished he was appointed head...
County; and two Riley nieces, Miss Lesley Payne and Mrs. Harry Miesse, the wife of an avid local tax expert...
Prize money depends on the number of dogs entered in the class, but it seldom covers the cost of transporting the animals from town to town. For that reason, dog shows are a rich man's affair, and the lot of the avid exhibitor, as well as that of his pots, is not an easy...