Word: avidity
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Exhibiting their persistent disregard of perennial protests by Britain's League Against Cruel Sports, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mother Elizabeth journeyed to Westacre, by their presence lent royal sanction to a meet of the West Norfolk Foxhounds. With them, and showing an avid interest in the hill-and-daling of the baying pack, were Princess Anne, in corduroy slacks and polo coat, and Prince Charles...
Horror Beneath Humor. These summaries help explain why publisher after publisher turned down Author Purdy's collection of short stories. Privately printed last year by two of his friends, the stories found few readers but avid ones. Poets Marianne Moore and Dame Edith Sitwell praised them. Aging (77) Novelist Carl Van Vechten was so impressed that he presented a collection of James Purdy's papers to the Yale library. After British publication last summer, a moderately daring U.S. firm, New Directions, finally took on the Purdy product. On the whole it was worth...
...Navy's safety men have added it to their list of dangerous fallout isotopes. They are now looking for plants and animals that may pick it up as it floats around the earth, and concentrate it in their tissues. They already know one plant, tea. that is avid for manganese and may concentrate the radioactive kind...
...splinter from the bomb tossed into the Knesset last fortnight had just been removed from his leg. If B-G heard the news, he would undoubtedly have insisted on going to the funeral, and his doctor refused to accept responsibility for the consequences. Since B-G is an avid newspaper reader, Argov's friends persuaded Israel's editors to print special editions for the old man, without any mention of his aide's death. The state radio (Ben-Gurion never listens to anything but Kol Israel) omitted the news from its broadcasts...
...Avid segregationist David R. Wang, executive secretary of the North American Citizens for the Constitution, wants to speak at the University this year if he can find an organization to sponsor him, it was learned yesterday...