Word: avidity
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...First. Among the rest of the field, Nixon visited Philadelphia and Cincinnati, laid on trips to Florida and Illinois in his avid nonpursuit of the nomination. Candidate Harold Stassen, who looks and sounds more like a non-candidate than the noncandidates themselves, admitted to Harvard's Young Republicans that he was "at the bottom of the totem pole" in New Hampshire. Even that was an understatement. And in Detroit, Michigan's Governor George Romney breakfasted with Pennsylvania's Scranton in the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, and each tried to persuade the other to jump into the race. Scranton...
Just across Fifth Avenue from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the U.S.'s amplest conservatory of time-tested art, is a hothouse of the newest and least tested. It is the apartment of Robert C. Scull, the world's most avid collector of Pop art or, as it is more generously called, New Realism...
...sick industries of the U.S. only a few years ago, steel looks so healthy today because steelmen have learned some modern lessons about how to take full advantage of national prosperity. After years of dawdling, they have finally become avid disciples of the latest cost-cutting and automation methods. At no firm has this conversion been more complete than at Jones & Laughlin, the nation's fifth largest producer-and nowhere have the results been more dramatic. On a sales rise of 6% (to $836 million) in 1963, J. & L. raised its earnings...
Last week red-faced officials announced that some revisions had been made on their mailing lists, and that tighter controls would be observed in the future. Peking had lost its subscriptions, and Taro Leaf and Jayhawk had lost some of their most avid readers...
...apologized that in her 19 years she had never used a microphone or appeared before a crowd. Facing the wigged high judges of Britain had failed to dent her brassbound confidence, but facing this crowd was something else. "Because my name is Mandy Rice-Davies," she had told the avid reporters a few hours earlier, "I have to start at the top. It's twice as hard...