Word: avidity
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BLIND students may have to spend more time and effort to get through an equal work load, but this does not keep them from outside interests. In high school Charlie managed three sports (both Hal and Charlie are avid sports enthusiasts; Hall has been at almost every Harvard football game this year, accompanied by a transistor radio and a pretty girl). Hal played the violin in his high school orchestra, and was president of Scarsdale High's General Organization. He ran for that position partially because he faced so much opposition from the faculty and the PTA: they were afraid...
...crack shot and avid hunter all his life, Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, 76, has obviously lost none of his skill, as evidenced by the bag of pheasants after a daylong shoot...
False Messiah. As Galileo, Tony van Bridge is far from the ravenous sensualist of thought that Brecht had in mind, a man as avid for "a new idea as for an old wine." He nibbles fastidiously at a part that calls for gorging. This glutton of the mind is an intellectual mercenary. He will retract theories, integrity and self-respect so long as he is paid off with his life. Knowledge is an appetite for him and not an unstained banner of loyalty to scientific inquiry or a mandate to kill the belief in God. He is the typical Brechtian...
Gathering together the hottest heads and most avid activists, he invaded Carson National Forest in late 1966 and "arrested" two rangers for trespassing on what he termed his sovereign state. When several members of his group last year found themselves in jail, a whooping band of raiders wounded two officers and kidnaped a deputy sheriff and a newsman. Although the state police were swiftly mobilized and augmented by a National Guard force with tanks, Tijerina's people slipped away. Arrested later, Tijerina and nine companions were charged with kidnaping and assault. He came to trial last week...
...time a man. His captor (Joe Ponazecki) hopes to assassinate the President of the U.S. during a motorcade, and he wants a witness to his own sanity in committing the act. The stuff of madness has been crammed into this young would-be assassin's head, principally by avid newspaper reading and televiewing. He knows all about cabinet crises in Lebanon, but he doesn't know right from wrong. He hopes to resolve his baffled impotence with a high-powered rifle shot...