Word: avidity
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...Lutheran Krister Stendahl, 33, one of Sweden's most brilliant Christian scholars, authority on the first century school of St. Matthew, avid apostle of Sweden's highly intellectual Christian youth movement...
...airliner and, said the tabloids, the damage, compared to Edna's, was inestimable. Obviously relishing every wolf call and whistle, Marilyn spent her time between a few days of picture-shooting (The Seven Year Itch) at a few nightclubs and Broadway shows, and with a few hundred avid autograph-hunting youngsters...
Strongman Perón, who has an ambitious five-year industrialization plan, was avid for the Odlum deal. The government oil monopoly has increased oil output only slowly, while consumption by the thirsty new industries has shot up fast. Imports rose from 10,693,000 bbls. in 1948 to 18,241,000 in the first ten months of 1953, draining off nearly $200 million a year in hard-to-get dollars and sterling. Argentina has enough oil underground for its own needs, but lacks the equipment, skilled workers and capital...
...Queen was also an avid museumgoer, never missed an important show at the Victoria & Albert. She had strong ideas on how objects should be arranged and displayed, sometimes disputed the judgment of the museum director...
...Only a people with out puritanical tradition, our high literacy rate, and our avid press could become so infatuated with such pedantic books," Kluckhohn declared in an address to the Massachusetts Social Hygiene Society on the implications of the Kinsey studies...