Word: enjoy
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...sequence requirement will also cause administrative problems. Consider, for instance, a student who takes Economics 1 as a sophomore and then decides that he does not enjoy Economics, and does not want to spend any more course-time on it. The CEP plan, as elucidated by Mr. Wilcox, gives him only the choice of leaping backwards into a lower-level course designed for people younger than he, or of taking the unpalatable Economics-oriented courses at the upper-level, or of beginning another two-year sequence...
...function, the State Department by general consensus rates high. Its ambassadors are able. Three-fourths of them are careermen, and of the political appointees, none are like the blundering, bottom-pinching misfits who have sometimes embarrassed the U.S. in the past. With the revolution of transportation and communication, ambassadors enjoy almost instant backup from Washington, which sometimes cuts into their freedom of action but also relieves them of weighty decision-making beyond their official competence. More often than an ambassador may like, someone senior to him (including the Secretary) may jet practically into his embassy's backyard. And when...
Some opera fans still attend out of habit or as a means of social climbing; if they seem contemptible to the real opera lover, they are abundantly punished by having to sit through hours of music they don't really enjoy. Some come as cultists: just as bullfight aficionados find macabre joy in waiting for the matador to be gored, operagoers can wait in horrible human fascination for the soprano to go flat at the end of Vissi d'arte or to fall downstairs in the mad scene of Lucia. In its own way, by the nearly impossible...
Between protecting themselves from various attackers, the Beatles sing six songs, which they enjoy most of all. You will...
...came here because, when the school doors closed at three o'clock, I did not enjoy turning my back upon the neighborhood in which my students lived--and finding, by a swift express route back across the Charles River, an escape from and an evasion of everything they hated, feared and loved...