Word: avidity
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...Iron fences. One of the more grisly tasks is investigating suicides. According to Lieutenant Paul Touchette, his squad has never been able to save a Harvard man who had decided to become a late Harvard man. "At least it's nice to be able to say," remarks Touchette, an avid Harvard booster and member of the Band, "that Harvard men do a professional job, and never botch...
...HAVE BEEN AN AVID READER OF TIME...
...still holding my sides. I imagine the avid interest for reading about "the impingements of mahogany" will garner many new readers for Miss Winsor...
...British newspaper reader, like his American cousin, is an avid crossword-puzzle fan, but Britain's puzzles are as different from those in the U.S. as chess is from checkers. Most U.S. puzzles give clues that are at best merely obscure, e.g., "a device to fill the lower pane of a painted window" in six letters.† British fans expect their clues to be witty, ingenious, arch and wildly erudite...
...striking fact was that most of the avid investigators were Democrats. Republicans would say this proved that the Democratic Administration was so rotten that even the Democrats couldn't stand it. Democrats would take the line that it merely proved their party's diligence in cleaning house...