Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he was "philosopher by instinct and politician by duty." He was also a patron of the arts. He played the flute to the accompaniment of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons; he wrote indifferent poetry under the tutelage of his sometime friend Voltaire; he was an avid collector of paintings and sculpture. In affairs of state, he was Prussian to the bone, but in painting he admired what was foreign...
News of the trade deficit chilled the stock market, and by December prices on the Tokyo Exchange had plummeted 30%. For months the market had been rising so joyously that investors forgot it could ever decline, and common people had become such avid speculators that brokerage houses opened offices in department stores for the convenience of housewives. Reluctantly, Ikeda raised interest rates to discourage further borrowing for expansion and put curbs on imports. As a result, the trade deficit has gradually begun to improve and stock prices have started recovering...
...Maurice Evans), a publisher and a cultish worshiper of a long-dead American Byron named Jeffrey Aspern, whose mistress Miss Bordereau once was. Jarvis is avid for literary mementoes-the Aspern papers. He coaxes Miss Tina to be his ally, in terms that seize her poor fluttery soul with a fantasy of love. Upon Miss Bordereau's sudden death, Miss Tina, tormented into boldness, names a price for the papers too devastatingly high for Jarvis to pay-marriage...
...RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS. "Anybody that wants to go back to eliminating the income tax from our laws, and the rights of people to unionize, who is advocating some form of dictatorship, that is the kind of person that I label extremist. Possibly their motivation is an avid desire for distinction. They attack people of good repute and who are proved patriots, to get their names in the headlines. I don't think the U.S. needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than anybody...
...hailed the contract as "a landmark" in the settlement of labor issues raised by mechanization and automation, but it was at best a landmark of questionable value. The chiefs of the other railroad brotherhoods immediately vowed to seek similar concessions, and the precedent was sure to be noted with avid interest in other industries where automation is eliminating jobs...