Word: avid
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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However, British informants said yesterday that Prime Minister Clement Attlee will urge President Truman, in their Washington talks starting Monday, to avid war with Red China at all costs. Associates said Attlee believed that this is the only way to preserve western unity...
...unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice was shrill and slightly cockney. While indubitably a born writer, he was not in the least an esthete -indeed, he compared Esthete Proust's Remembrance of Things Past to "a 20-year-old store catalogue." Though a staunch socialist and avid student of political economy, he considered Karl Marx "the worst type of bore," and he summed up the Soviet image of the revolutionary worker as a "pithacoid Proletarian, dishevelled and semi-nude...
TIME, the best news magazine in the country, featuring [May 8] the New York Times, the best newspaper in the world, constitutes a rare journalistic treat for any avid reader...
Thermometer or Tool? He and Chairman Nourse were constantly at loggerheads. Nourse, onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, who thought of himself as an economist and nothing else, stuck pretty close to economic orthodoxy. Keyserling, an avid Government planner, was further to the left. The council's third member, John D. Clark, skittered around vaguely somewhere in between. The chief difference between Nourse and Keyserling was in their interpretations of CEA's job. Nourse thought it was chiefly to hold a thermometer under the nation's tongue and dispassionately report the results. Keyserling thought...
...Avid Durante followers won't appreciate "The Great Rupert." The plot, a rather juvenile and absurd one, certainly confines Durante's talents, and the man himself appears less exuberant than in some of his earlier pictures...