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Word: avidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aziz, a pioneer in phase transformation kinetics and an avid windsurfer, said he received the offer on September 22, and will make his decision within the next few weeks...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aziz Gets Tenure Bid In Applied Sciences | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...medium in no time flat. At a svelte 270, his friendly, full-moon face piked on a Pillsbury Doughboy frame, he looks like a defrocked Friar Tuck. More important, he has underlined another aspect of his personality: that of class clown. He woos the camera like an avid freshman on a fluke date with the senior prom queen. He guffaws, he blusters, he bats his eyes, he makes kissy- face. He will do anything to keep you watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Provocateur Or BIG BLOWHARD? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...YEARS BETWEEN STUDIO ALbums is an eternity in pop music. This is especially true for fans of Peter Gabriel, the 42-year-old British rock singer, composer, producer and avid human-rights activist. Gabriel's last album, So, was progressive, musically and lyrically; his latest, Us, is even more compelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rhythms Of Inwardness | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...each year must watch 300 new movies, many of them junk. This may explain why Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Lucky Stiff, Homer & Eddie and Closet Land -- films that barely achieved theatrical release -- are among the targets of Medved's dudgeon. It also leads him to catalog, in avid detail, outrages of manners in the movies. Who else would think to tabulate recent films with scenes of vomiting (36) or urination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magistrate of Morals | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...These avid customers dine at II Panino as many as six times a week for dinner, and drop by for lunch...

Author: By Geoffrey J. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge Journal | 9/30/1992 | See Source »

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