Word: avidity
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...said to be on vacation, arrived in Casablanca and by luck turned up one local cop who was willing to talk. Albert Forestier was a tough, 25-year-old ex-racing cyclist and newspaperman who had joined the police force only a few months before. He was soon an avid vigilante as well, but when his friends bombed the home of his old editor, he turned sour. Albert's story to the French detectives was complete with names and dates. Before he could tell it to a judge and jury, however, he died in an automobile crash...
...works shown on these pages demonstrate, they are likely to represent diametrically opposed views of life and also of art itself. Amidst such diversity, new and broader concepts of art may well form, and when that happens Manhattan will become an art center as creative as it is already avid...
Wrote Reader Weber: "Quite a few years ago when I was in college, my roommate and I both subscribed to TIME, read it avidly, even copied TIME'S style in writing to each other when we were apart for summer vacation. The Christmas before we graduated, we were both stumped for a present for each other. We could not afford anything that the other really needed. Finally, we decided that since both our TIME subscriptions expired in December, we would just give TIME to each other. This was not only the perfect gift, but also completely reciprocal. This continued...
...There must be many an intellectual, avid newspaper reader-even editor -who finds himself reading regularly the survey offered him by magazines, although the dateline may be three to seven days behind his own morning paper-not so much for the additional informative items, or the 'cute' pattern in which the facts are laid, but for the perspective in the properly arranged facts . . . It is the messenger in the Greek tragedy who always gives a better commentary of the battle than the hero or his arms-bearer who shout bits of information around during the encounter. The newspaper...
...canny crew of scotch boatmen, High and Dry is best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...