Word: avidity
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...Ludke was found dead on a friend's hunting preserve near Trier in the Eifel Mountains, a fist-sized wound in his chest, his Mauser rifle, loaded with dumdum rounds, across his legs. Accident? Ludke was an avid hunter and too experienced a rifleman. Suicide? The Trier district attorney's office thought so, but it did not rule out murder. There was nothing in Ludke's record to indicate a likelihood of treason, but the federal prosecutor's office left open the possibility that he had spied for a foreign power...
...these lousy kids come in from outside and spoil the market," said Avery, an expensively groomed seller and an avid reader of science fiction. "The new cats burn (cheat) everybody," added his girlfriend, Stinger, in the suitable Hippese...
...state's fair-housing law a "forced housing" act. With obvious relish, particularly in view of Rafferty's ringing condemnation of draft-card burners as "creeps, cowards, unwashed, long-haired Communists," the Democratic-leaning Long Beach Independent has accused the G.O.P candidate of being something less than avid to serve in the Armed Forces during World War II. Citing Rafferty's 4F status (for flat feet), the newspaper quoted his exwife: "He said if that didn't work, it would be easy to have an accident and shoot...
Trade Without Treaty. Siberian development is only part of the broadening trade between Japanese eager to export consumer goods and know-how and Russians avid for capital and technical advice. Japan's trade with Russia doubled last year to $610 million and reached $500 million for the first seven months of this year. Not even the fact that the two nations, which dispute ownership of small islands lying between northernmost Japan and the Russian-held Kuriles, have still not signed a World War II peace treaty seems to slow down the economic get-together. One reason for this...
...intrepid crew filming a documentary that will be seen on CBS next season. The one-hour production will mark Narrator Holden's TV debut. Ten years ago he left Hollywood and became a co-owner of the Mount Kenya Safari Club. He has since become an avid conservationist, and decided only recently that he would go on TV because he wanted to tell the story of Kenya's ecology...