Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Klux Klan Wizard Robert Shelton--showed it to Flowers, and the interview ended abruptly.) A number of federal and state judges and other officials continue to subscribe (Alabama has two subscriptions--one for the state archives, the other for the anti-poverty office), but few are as avid followers of it as was Flowers...
...their own fig leaf and precensor their works before submitting them to the state-owned publishing houses. The more courageous writers have been smuggling their works out to the West, or publishing them in a growing number of crudely printed journals that circulate sub rosa and have an avid readership. Young Leningrad and Moscow writers organized a semisecret association called SMOG (an acronym for youth, courage, image and depth). They not only contribute to such clandestine publications as Phoenix, Sphinx, Kolokol (Bell) and Tetradi (Notebooks), but have secretly published whole works, among them Alexander Urusov's tale of labor...
...Buckley Jr., on 20 stations, commands one of the more intelligent talk shows. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is a regular chatterbox on local TV, joshing away with Pierre Salinger or George Jessel, and Comic Mort Sahl has found a Los Angeles TV soapbox from which to harangue an avid following with his prophecies of Armageddon...
...given by Benito Mussolini. Il Duce "sat at his desk reading a book. His face was contorted into the famous frown. He was registering Dictator . . . and he remained absorbed in his book ... I tiptoed over be hind him to see what the book was he was reading with such avid interest. It was a French-English dictionary -held upside down...
...persons unknown who set off a bomb outside the Montgomery home of Johnson's 69-year-old mother two weeks ago. The Johnsons have lost friends, though "none we wanted to keep." They belong to Montgomery's handsome country club, but the judge confines his avid golfing (mid-80s) to a few open-minded military partners at nearby Maxwell Air Force Base, where "it's easier to be just Frank Johnson." He is not about to defend his decisions by writing articles or giving law-school lectures. "Judges make their decrees...