Word: enjoy
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Pressure Off. If the trend continues, Lyndon Johnson will have another campaign point, and the U.S. will enjoy much more freedom of maneuver in foreign and domestic economic policy. For one thing, the better balance relieves the U.S. of much political pressure from the French, who have brandished their large hoard of dollars as a weapon and, says Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller, often made U.S. officialdom feel "like mendicants"; last year the French drained off $500 million worth of U.S. gold and threatened to convert even more dollars. No one can be certain if or when the U.S. will...
...Coverly, exiled to the noncommunity of a missile base, finds the apparently human personnel recognize each other's existence no more than so many shades in a picture-window limbo of tract houses. His brother Moses, apparently better equipped than his dreamy brother to achieve success and enjoy its rewards, is defeated by the metamorphosis of his wife Melissa. Once the personification of love, she is transformed into a spirit of hostile chastity, and then into a voracious nymphomaniac, with Circe's vile power of turning men into beasts. Intended as a design in "improbability," Cheever...
...even tries to match her hosts insult for insult. Hostess: "We thought all Americans were gangsters." Honey: "And we thought all Englishmen were gentlemen." She usually loses anyway because they merely enjoy...
...contemplates living on the level of villages in an under-developed country must be able to endure discomforts and frustration. He must be able to live simply, to enjoy the food of the country. As one Peace Corps official put it, "It's all a kind of maturity. A person must be able to see, understand, and accept...
...possibly can because they kick harder." He also had something to say about Beatlemania: "I really could not care less how much noise people make singing and dancing. The noise I object to is people righting and stealing. It seems to me that these blokes are helping people to enjoy themselves, and that is far better than the other thing...