Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passengers have complaints about railroads, and few have the opportunity to do anything about it. One passenger who is an avid railroad enthusiast recently traveled from Chicago to Washington on the B. & O.'s crack Capitol Limited. "The train traveled so fast through the Alleghenies that I found it difficult to sleep or shave, much less keep my coffee in its cup," complained Jervis Langdon Jr. Since he happens to be president of the B. & O., he forthwith ordered engineers to slow down. Trains, he argued, should go back to the old values of comfort and contemplation that they...
...avid reader of TIME and a sometime handler of show dogs, I'm very curious as to the breed of dog pictured with Mrs. Winston Guest on the cover of TIME, July 20. It looks a bit like a Saluki. JULIA L. HUNT New Haven, Conn. > Mrs. Guest's dog, Sultan, is indeed a smooth-haired Saluki, Egypt's royal dog and perhaps the oldest known domesticated breed...
...system's first year in four Chicago apartment houses, it turned into what one avid viewer described as "the greatest indoor sport since chess." Not content simply to tune in when they themselves had visitors, most tenants were delightedly looking in fulltime at their neighbors...
...standards of staid old Boston, Ceezee was a bumptious debutante. She and her one-year-older sister Nancy, another high-spirited and conspicuously pretty blonde, were always making news, and Mrs. Pickman was kept busy berating the newspapers for printing pictures of them. Both were avid rooters for the Bruins hockey team; they knew all the players' names, and it was even rumored that on occasion Ceezee varied her diet of Harvard boys to go out with some of the squad. "She was always very democratic," recalls a contemporary...
...dinner each week in his opulent London town house. He has used his fortune lavishly to bankroll England's recent Liberal revival, and is chairman of the Cities of London and Westminster Liberal Association. He owns a small but influential string of magazines. He is an avid follower of the track, and his wife races a filly named High...