Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avid reader of TIME, and also one of the "angry school officials" who "snort" replies to the accusations of "bright-eyed kids," I found your Sept. 15 article concerning the high schools of Downey to be most revealing. Now I know, firsthand, why I shall never cancel my subscription to your magazine: What other publication offers so much entertaining reading without the intrusion of factual and accurate reporting...
...avid reader of your most excellent magazine, I am fascinated by the variety of information you are able to produce...
...York City Sir: Having been a so-called "good Catholic" all my life, I find that the majority of happy marriages among Catholics are those in which the couples either practice birth control (in one form or another) or find it very difficult to conceive anyway. Most of the avid advocates of the church's viewpoint are in the latter category, and I'm sick of it. There are many people-Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and what have you-who want a great many children, and for them that's fine, but my very happy marriage...
...editing our translation, however, we were tempted, in behalf of the married males, to pencil out that low-hitting reference to Milanese husbands' infidelity; but, alas, many a Milanese wife is also an avid TIME reader...
...Suburbia's avid social honeybees buzz from address to address in search of sweet status, Suburbia is at the same time the home of the talented and distinguished Americans who write the nation's books, paint its paintings, run its corporations and set the patterns.* If its legions sometimes march into frantic activity with rigorous unison, they march for such causes as better schools, churches and charities, which are the building blocks of a nation's character. If Suburbia's ardent pursuit of life at backyard barbecues, block parties and committee meetings offends pious city-bred...