Word: morsel
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...sustenance of a similarly satisfying and pleasing nature. True, he may pick up here and there bits of dubious desirability, such as even the darkest age would have been ashamed to feed its intellectual beggars, but where, oh where, shall he turn for the dainty side dish, the morsel done to suit the whines of a discriminating palate...
...Lourdes." When he reaches this shrine, he descends from his vehicle to pray at it for a few moments. Nearby are cages containing his two pets?an eagle and a green parrot. He prefers the parrot, to which he has taught a few phrases. He feeds them each a morsel and then passes on, daily, for a short walk by himself...
TONG! The magic word. City editors rolled it in their mouths. A sweet morsel...
...this country on New Year's Day. A request to the press that adverse opinion should not be openly expressed, lest observers from other nations should form the erroneous opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which enshrouds its author...
...more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts, crushing the carcass to a pulp; swallows the morsel...