Word: avidly
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What cushioned her abrupt transition to American culture, she said, was becoming an avid reader and discovering the power of books...
...marine’s death, and that she . She later said she was surprised that Filkins had dedicated the book to the slain soldier, for this signified his “acknowledging that there’s something he did.” Payne said she became an avid reader of Filkins’s articles while her brother was on tour in Iraq, because she used them to keep up with news of her brother. “The articles were really good because they said things that [her brother] would never say,” she said...
...they are compossible (possible in coexistence) with everyday speech. Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate since 1999, selected skirr, which refers to the rattling, scratchy noise that a bird's wings make during flight. "It's an appealing word with an onomatopoeic value and resonance," he says. Motion, an avid bird watcher, has already used the word on an evening radio program and hopes to include it in a poem if he can do so without "wrenching things around too much...
...Both new owners are avid readers, they love books, they plan their vacations around books,” Kramer said...
...Masters, who before his election last year had been one of the city's most visible community leaders, said parents of children who dropped their pants were among the most avid supporters of the ban. City spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown admits she wasn't among them. Legislating morality doesn't make sense, she said, though she acknowledges the law could work and wishes she "had a dollar for every time we made Torrey [her youngest son, now 25] pull his pants up when he was growing...