Word: avidity
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Chloe, police learned, enjoyed a high rating for intelligence in her school, where she was a year ahead of her class. She was an avid reader of fiction, newspapers, crime stories. She told this nightmare tale with stupendous composure. Throughout her questioning, she stuck to her story, said finally: "I'd like to have some soup and a piece of lemon cream pie." Steadfast in his belief that Chloe was telling the truth was her stricken father...
...With the One Coin for Fee two aging women, girlhood friends, meet after many years as 1938's New England hurricane blows up. One is at the end of a sexually avid and shameless career; the other is a spinster who jealously despises her. They die in the hurricane, reconciled...
...This Government hereby calls the entire Finnish people to a determined struggle for the overthrow of the tyranny of hangmen and war provocateurs. The reactionary, avid plutocracy which in 1918, aided by the troops of foreign imperialists, drowned democratic freedom of the Finnish toiling people in a sea of blood, transformed our country into a White-Guard hell for toilers...
Sober, methodical and coolheaded, Violist Primrose is no sissy. His evenings are spent, not at musical tea parties, but at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Once a good boxer himself, still an avid connoisseur of right hooks and straight lefts, he no longer dares to get into the ring for fear of hurting his hands. Today, Primrose is generally considered the world's finest viola player. No longer does he have to play one-night stands, traipsing through snowdrifts to theatres and hotels in out-of-the-way Canadian and Midwestern towns. He reaches a bigger audience...
...scene: a nude woman, lying on a couch of black velvet, seducing the hero: " 'You hold yourself in control like a bloodhound in leash,' she said with a provocative movement of her lips. . . . Flushed, panting, in a frenzy of passion, she clung to him, kissing him with avid lips, aroused to wild lubricity. 'Beat me if you like,' she cried, 'strike me, crush me. I crave violence...