Word: avidity
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...untold joys of a cold gin and tonic after a game of tennis, then your perverse intellectual streak (authentic of otherwise) will probably drive you into Cambridge's many bookstores. If so, you will not be disappointed because browsing is a local specialty and Square bookshops cater to the avid reader with welcoming stacks and close to round the clock hours...
...group holds a number of poetry readings and seminars, sometimes with Chinmoy himself, who has come to Harvard the last eight years. This year the meditation group sponsored a 24-hour poetry reading in which 3500 of Chinmoy's poems were read aloud. Because the philosopher is also an avid athlete, the group sponsored a 347-mile continuous relay around campus earlier in the year to commemorate Harvard's 347th anniversary...
...just thrust into a political frenzy for months. It was exceedingly exciting, not just politically, but in a very personal way... We attended umpteen political rallies and speeches, with the TV cameras and lights and everything... Somewhere in the campaign, I became involved in the whole process, became an avid Republican, an avid Nixon supporter, an avid Bowen supporter. There wasn't much else to be in Bremen...
...avid collector since the age of seven--she grew up in Florida surrounded by insects--Bowers still goes out into the fields of Western Massachusetts once or twice a week to collect checkerspots. "These guys are a real pain in the neck," she says, pointing affectionately to the orange and black striped furry caterpillars stacked in plates in her lab. Checkerspots take a full year to mature from the larval stage to the butterfly stage, and Bowers must collect specimens every week or so in order to follow the insects throughout their life cycle...
...when the defeated dictator wrote his will, married his mistress Eva Braun and put a bullet through his brain the a 7.65-mm Walther pistol, phony Hitleriana -including the will, the marriage certificate and the pistol-have flooded the worldwide market for Nazi memorabilia. In 1981, for example, an avid collector asked the noted West German historian Werner Maser to authenticate what he claimed was the suicide pistol of Maser last week: "I told him there existed a whole suitcase full of Hitler of guns, all forged with Hitler's initials and the correct number of Hitler...