Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Swan. The principal source of these accusations was Montagna's discarded mistress, Milanese Socialite Anna Maria Caglio, known to Italy's avid scandal readers as "the black swan." In September 1954, largely on the strength of Anna Maria's circumstantial tale of sex orgies, dope trafficking and corruption in high places, Piero Piccioni was formally charged with "culpable homicide." Arrested along with him were Montagna and the ex-chief of the Rome police...
Young Gerry, already a budding zoologist, was a bit of a hellion in this demi-paradise, but only because of his avid scientific urge to bring all the island fauna home. There was the day brother Leslie I went upstairs to bathe and found two snakes in the tub, and the day brother Larry started to light a cigarette from a matchboxful of scorpions. Gerry had been studying the scorpions' mating dance. The rest of the family had their own little idiosyncrasies to which, as his title suggests. Author Durrell pays his amused and amusing respects...
...This performs many important jobs including trying to save suicides. Lt. Paul Touchette, head of the Rescue Squad, says his squad has never been able to save a Harvard suicide. "At least its nice to be able to say," said Touchette, a member of the Harvard Band and an avid Harvard booster, "That Harvard men do a professional job, and never botch...
Since last August, Mr. Gaposchkin has been photographing the southern stars at the Australian Common-wealth Observatory, where former Harvard professor Bart J. Bok will soon assume directorship. Gaposchkin will resume his activities at Harvard next fall. Assisting him in Australia is his 16-year-old son, already an avid mathematician and astronomer. The Gaposchkins have two other children, a son studying electrical engineering as Tufts and a daughter majoring in Slavic languages at Swarthmore...
Tall, silver-haired, with electric-blue eyes, d'Entreves finds relaxation in rambling through the Northern Italian Alps near his birthplace. Aside from climbing, he is an avid collector of classical records and has a deep interest in and love of music. Although he has not taught political theory for several years, d'Entreves feels totally at home in the subject, and is glad to return...