Word: enjoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the island of Sulawesi, where he wowed the natives not only by giving pithy explanations of what his government is trying to do but by donning a sarong and the peaked local headdress. Later this month, he goes off to Bali on a similar speechmaking tour...
Professors who spend a day each week in Washington, or part of their time on government research, may find their perspective slightly altered-if not warped-by their pre-occupation with "practical" matters. . . . Many professors, even if they disagree with government policies, enjoy the chance to play some role in Washington affairs...
Despite the drawbacks of Harvard's involvement with the outside world, a large number of Faculty members seem to like things the way they are. Many professors, even if they disagree with government policies, enjoy the chance to play some role in Washington affairs...
...House of Lords has a membership of 1,045, twice the number in 1911. Its hereditary peers number 865. Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit as lords spiritual, and 154 life peers have been created under the 1958 act. In a title-conscious country, the Lords enjoy high prestige. Their most important perquisite is the right to sit in the elaborately Gothic House of Lords, where everything from special parking spaces out front to toilets marked "Peers" smacks of privilege. And, as Anthony Sampson notes in his Anatomy of Britain Today: "A Lord finds it easier...
...week later he goes over the hill. Quickly trapped, he remains indomitable, escaping again and again-only to be caught each time. By now he has become almost a legend to the prisoners, who vicariously enjoy his flings at freedom. But when the jailers beat and overwork Luke until he grovels at their feet for mercy, the inmates turn their backs on him. Luke, played by Newman with his customary cocky resilience, has one more race up his sleeve, steals a truck when the guards casually turn their backs on him, and zooms off. Chain Gang showed Paul Man failing...