Word: avidity
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Elda, and the generations of European women she represents, created a powerful personal creed. She was an avid healer, a caring, soothing presence in the face of poverty and a demeaning social position. And it is her experience--the experience of the nurturing, intelligent and misunderstood woman--which Sorceress chronicles eloquently...
...next round of challenges. The top targets: exclusionary country clubs and golf courses. The famed Burning Tree Club in Bethesda, Md., for instance, does not allow women to set foot on its greens as either members or guests. For the record, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is an avid golfer...
...back, Donruss only traces a player's performance back to 1983. That's fine for Chris Bosio, Brewer's reliever, but it's unconscionable for Fred Lynn or Gary Carter (himself an avid card collector...
Delaney Smith has changed her strategy almost as much as she has changed her hairdo. An avid believer in pressure defense, she abandoned it in her first few years because of Harvard's lack of quickness...
...Entertaining at home, he is unable merely to sit and chat. If the conversation slows, he will excuse himself from friends to do a little night jogging or work on some required reading. His front-yard garden of tomatoes, cucumbers and onions has its own mission. Points out the avid gardener: "There are enough salads here for a whole year...