Word: avidity
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...boys have picked up the girls at a bar on Saturday night and almost made out with them. As the play begins, the time is Sunday; the place, a hot, deserted stretch of beach. The girls seem carnally avid but they affect coyness. They tease and taunt the boys in a long first scene that is electric with erotic tension and yet often savagely funny...
...Restic has a way of creating surprises for opposing coaches and avid fans. The Crimson might be using some new formations in The Game, adding to the large number that Harvard already uses. Whatever tactic Restic decides to use, it will definitely utilize the talents of his offensive cogs, Jim Stoeckel, Neal Miller and Pat McInally. If they perform as they have in the past, they should beat Yale and make the 50-mph ride home seem a lot quicker...
...reverse the rail system's dangerously downhill direction, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, an avid train buff, helped push through the Diet a ten-year, $40 billion program to upgrade JNR's equipment and tracks...
Neither then nor since has Sadat seemed like a typical revolutionary. A careful dresser who favors British blazers and tasseled loafers, he has long been an avid Ping Pong player. On a visit to the U.S. a few years ago, he wandered through secondhand bookshops and bought a set of the complete works of Zane Grey; his favorite author, he once said, was Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe), whose novels he discovered while he was in prison. He lives with his attractive, half-British second wife, Gehan, and their four children in a comfortable house at Giza, a Cairo suburb...
HARVARD ALSO HAS a responsibility to its donors. Ernest G. Stillman '08, who bequeathed the land to the University, was an avid naturalist who intended his gift to be used for forestry research. It is not unreasonable to believe that he would have objected strenuously to the sale of his land--as have many of his descendants--to a utility bent on using it with transparent disregard for the intricacies of the region's ecology...