Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contamination of food crops from strontium-90 fallout can be reduced by simply adding lime to the soil, said the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's Dr. Eric B. Fowler. His team found, in "Project Green Thumb," that plants growing in calcium-poor soils are avid for strontium: give them enough crushed limestone (which is 40% calcium), and they lose much of their appetite...
...some bright, some boring-he draws about $150,000 a year, a sizable chunk of which goes to his five ex-wives. "I have to take 800 bucks a week right off the top for the gals before I start paying for anything else." Nonetheless, Gibson is still an avid gallant. Says he: "I love women; it's only wives I have trouble with. But I always advise other people against divorce-if you get one, you might as well put up with her; the next one is likely to be worse...
David Wang, avid racial supremist, announced yesterday that he has accepted an invitation to speak here February...
Exhibiting their persistent disregard of perennial protests by Britain's League Against Cruel Sports, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mother Elizabeth journeyed to Westacre, by their presence lent royal sanction to a meet of the West Norfolk Foxhounds. With them, and showing an avid interest in the hill-and-daling of the baying pack, were Princess Anne, in corduroy slacks and polo coat, and Prince Charles...
Horror Beneath Humor. These summaries help explain why publisher after publisher turned down Author Purdy's collection of short stories. Privately printed last year by two of his friends, the stories found few readers but avid ones. Poets Marianne Moore and Dame Edith Sitwell praised them. Aging (77) Novelist Carl Van Vechten was so impressed that he presented a collection of James Purdy's papers to the Yale library. After British publication last summer, a moderately daring U.S. firm, New Directions, finally took on the Purdy product. On the whole it was worth...