Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Larry McAfee was an avid outdoorsman. Growing up in south Georgia, he loved to fish, hunt and play baseball. But all that ended in 1985, when a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Since then he has lost his zest for living. McAfee, 33, thus petitioned a Georgia court for permission to turn off the ventilator that has been keeping him alive. As the former civil engineer testified in an emotional bedside hearing last month, he woke up every morning "fearful of each new day. There is nothing I have found or can think of that...
...executed in Florida in January. Bundy and Stevens were both enrolled as students at the University of Washington; Bundy was a senior while Stevens was a freshman. Bundy was also a former law student in the Northwest who had a fixation on police badges. And both men were avid consumers of pornography...
Junior Elliot Thomson, an avid New York Yankee fan, said it best: "Ken Phelps will have more home runs than RBI this year...
Junior Rob Manhole, an avid Celtics fan, has made it public: The Celtics should not make the NBA playoffs. Then they'll get the chance to draft Michigan's Glen Rice...
...avid proponent of educational reform stopped at Harvard during a national tour of American universities sponsored by Educators for Social Responsibility, a national teachers organization that encourages student involvement in social issues...