Word: avidly
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...makes only his regular salary of $44,600, plus some money for speaking appearances (his normal fee: $1,000). Like many other liberal politicians in Washington, Mondale sends his children to private schools. In Mondale's case, all of the schools are integrated. Son Teddy, 18, is an avid dirt-track motorcycle racer. Eleanor, 16, owns a palomino quarter horse named Sunny, and together they have won an impressive array of ribbons at horse shows. William, 14, is into football, tennis, wrestling and lacrosse...
...Louisiana law firm became suspicious when he claimed in an interview to be the great grandnephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia. He also said he was an avid skin diver, but bared his ignorance about the sport when one of the law firm's partners, a scuba enthusiast, asked him about...
Proposed as an anticancer drug by San Francisco Biochemist Ernst Krebs Jr. in 1952, Laetrile* has attracted an avid, almost evangelical band of followers. Among them are members of the right-wing John Birch Society who regard the Food and Drug Administration's ban on Laetrile as a restraint on individual freedom. Krebs argued that Laetrile kills only cancerous cells-not normal tissue-because they do not contain an enzyme that detoxifies the poison cyanide released from Laetrile's central ingredient, a chemical called amygdalin. Yet in repeated tests, Laetrile has shown no effect on tumors. Says...
...absence of a Canadian section [March 8] for the first time in so many years leaves this faithful avid TIME reader for more than a quarter of a century a little saddened. It is not unlike bidding farewell to a good neighbor who has been able to provide us with a periodic fresh and candid look at ourselves...
...great grand-nephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia, the nephew of a man who "owned most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that he was an avid scuba diver that really destroyed his credibility. One of Lanier's partners was a scuba enthusiast, and fooled Spiro into expanding on the subject, about which Pavlovich knew nothing. The firm contacted Tulane University, then Harvard Law. Harvard asked King and Spaulding if it wished to press charges, but the firm...