Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest picture to play a Broadway theater-ever," says a spokesman for Loews, the conglomerate that operates one of the nation's largest movie chains. That kind of talk about the science-fiction movie Star Wars finds avid listeners among investors and stockbrokers disgusted by the aimless zigs and zags of a dispirited market. The price of shares in 20th Century-Fox, the maker of Star Wars, has more than doubled since the film opened in 32 theaters four weeks ago, leading a boom in movie and entertainment stocks generally. MGM has roared from $16 to $24.25 this year...
...Alaska, sounded an even more alarming note. Said he: "Withdrawals of public lands have reached such proportions that our national security already may be jeopardized." Oil companies, already drilling on Alaska's North Slope, want a chance at least to prospect the potential parklands, and loggers are casting avid eyes on Alaska's timber resources...
Pong's importance in history has not diminished since that day. For instance, the inventor of the pen, an avid pong player who employed the pen-holder grip, named his new invention after this grip when he realized a pen is held just like a ping pong paddle. More recently ping pong diplomacy has opened the door to improved relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China...
...biggest change was one of attitude, and that was the change that many men have missed. Women were pursuing sports with avid enthusiasm. No longer were women sticking to gymnastics or a social game of tennis. They were turning to all sports...
...private law practice; his firm has offices in Dallas and Washington. Strauss, who is already wealthy, liked to crack that he "looked forward to getting rich-a poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns to survive." Strauss made his fortune in law, banking and television stations. Though not an avid swimmer, Strauss built a large pool at his luxurious Dallas home so that he could look out and, as he puts it, say to himself: "Strauss, you are a rich sumbitch...