Word: avidity
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...YUGOSLAVIA. Avid for dollars, Tito's government forgives Americans guilty of traffic offenses that would land Yugoslavs in serious trouble. If an American goes to jail, it is usually only long enough for the cops to find a translator to call U.S. officials. To avoid accidents, however, avoid night driving. Roads are full of unlighted oxcarts and parked trucks with snoozing drivers. If he bumbles into forbidden areas at night, a tourist may find his car and himself ventilated by trigger-happy guards. Equally dangerous: trading black-market dollars or defacing Tito's ubiquitous pictures...
...mouse. In true Peanuts fashion, the dogs, says Joyce, are "watchdogs in the sense that a burglar might trip over them in the dark." "Things are too easy for children nowadays," says Schulz. But things also remain the same. At least one of his sons, Monte, 13, is an avid ballplayer who expects to play this summer in the Pony League...
...Avid Yachtsman...
...avid yachtsman. Forbes was familiar with the entire Atlantic coastline. Retarded and emotionally disturbed children concerned him throughout his life, and at one time he was president of the George Junior Republic in Freeville. New York a project to aid such children...
...Beat the Devil" (1954) is Bogart making fun of himself. Many of his avid devotees find the film heretical, and Bogart himself is said not to have liked it much, but it's an indisputably clever bit of whimsey. Written by Truman Capote and John Huston and filmed by Huston's own company on the Gulf Sorrento in Southern Italy, the whole production was a casual vacation exercise for Huston and some of his actor-friends who happened to be in the area at the time...