Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreement capped five months of tawdry wrangling in what now seems like the all-tabloid media. Maids and chauffeurs, lissome lads and their parents fed their accusations of misconduct or declarations of support to the avid press. Tracking the story was a full-time job for many newshounds -- 250 littered the lawn of the Superior Court building in Santa Monica last week to hear the announcement of the epochal compromise -- and for the two squads of lawyers. The main attorneys got high marks for their work. "Feldman publicized, publicized, publicized, and then got the big settlement," says New York City...
Darn! Darn! Darn! I mean Norma, not Abby. Help me. I'm a man obsessed. As an avid peninsula reader and fan, I cannot rest until I find her--Abagail Adams. Where do I begin my search? I know she's out there. --No Man is an Island...
Snowboarders at Harvard? As incongruous as that may sound, they do exist--and are avid enthusiasts at that. No, they don't all boast long, tangled locks, neither do they sport tattoos or rings on unspeakable body parts, but they do seek death just as much as any other boarder would...
...course, we're all fans at heart. Dave loves the (to me, evil) Big Apple quartet of Rangers, Giants, Yankees and Knicks, and Sean loves his K-State Wildcats, KU Jayhawks and K.C. Chiefs. Avid back-page browsers will note my undying devotion to baseball's Braves, and civic pride makes me a little giddy regarding the upcoming centennial Olympiad...
...certain that anything remains to be discovered. The basic facts, and Inman's responses, have long been a matter of public record. In an interview with TIME, Inman stressed his extreme reluctance to take the job in the first place -- which helps explain his hypersensitivity to criticism that someone avid for Cabinet rank might shrug off. He says he became so tense and grouchy in intelligence work that it took the first 10 of his 12 years in private life for him to relax. His wife Nancy had begun to make a career for herself as a photographer and dreaded...