Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's safety men have added it to their list of dangerous fallout isotopes. They are now looking for plants and animals that may pick it up as it floats around the earth, and concentrate it in their tissues. They already know one plant, tea. that is avid for manganese and may concentrate the radioactive kind...
...splinter from the bomb tossed into the Knesset last fortnight had just been removed from his leg. If B-G heard the news, he would undoubtedly have insisted on going to the funeral, and his doctor refused to accept responsibility for the consequences. Since B-G is an avid newspaper reader, Argov's friends persuaded Israel's editors to print special editions for the old man, without any mention of his aide's death. The state radio (Ben-Gurion never listens to anything but Kol Israel) omitted the news from its broadcasts...
...Avid segregationist David R. Wang, executive secretary of the North American Citizens for the Constitution, wants to speak at the University this year if he can find an organization to sponsor him, it was learned yesterday...
Lady Chattelley's Miner. Here began an affair right out of Lady Chatterley's Lover. "I did not fancy myself as a haggard, rabid, avid randy dowager combing the Riviera for young blood," says Caitlin. Nonetheless, Caitlin, then 39, took an 18-year-old Italian iron miner as her lover. In part, Joseph, with his "attractive grave hardness," was an antidote to Dylan, who had been so finicky that he could pull an "all-out faint" at the sight of a mouse, and was "as useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin...
...hopes and aims: in the event that none of the new presidential hopefuls seems to have a commanding lead, might not seasoned old gladiator Stevenson be sent out in 1960 for yet another battle? Gossiped Chicago Tribune Columnist Herb Lyon: "Some of Adlai Stevenson's most avid Chicago followers are plotting to get him to try again...