Word: avidity
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...vote seemed governed by two essentially negative sentiments: discontent and routine. The vote for the Communists was probably as much the French workers' continued protest against still-too-low wages and rising prices as an avid option for Moscow from doctrinaire party members. Gaullist votes mostly recorded dissatisfaction with Third Force bumbling...
...propose without being accepted. How to propose realistically and how to keep their acceptances and refusals in accord with your whims--immediate and future--Is the crux of the perfect line." Or so said "Vanity Fair," a magazine which was avid reading material for the Class of '26. Other literati were getting free seats to "Oedipus Rex" at the Opera House by being part of a Theban mob which ran up and down the theatre during one scene. "I think that Harvard students make a very creditable mob..." the show's director said...
...Earl letter to MacLeish said "very few people understand why an oath is necessary...and it seems...that you are one of them...I am not again (sic) civil rights, but I do feel that when a too avid pursuit of it imperils our national security, someone should speak...
Said the duke, an avid ornithologist: "I know nothing about pictures. If it had been deer or birds-but pictures...
However, British informants said yesterday that Prime Minister Clement Attlee will urge President Truman, in their Washington talks starting Monday, to avid war with Red China at all costs. Associates said Attlee believed that this is the only way to preserve western unity...