Word: relished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comeback try for his old Senate seat (24 years, 1926-50), defeated George P. Mahoney by a narrow 6,000 votes in the state's tightest senatorial primary (TIME, May 21), Mahoney won more state convention delegates. Last week, when convention time came in Baltimore, the Mahoneyites with relish and in grim retribution slashed Tydings' backers to ribbons...
...Parliament in 1931 for a Bedfordshire seat that he has held ever since. As elegant backbencher he praised Franco, Mussolini and Hitler, joined the Friends of Franco, and overenthusiastically defended Munich ("Hitler could absorb Czechoslovakia and Britain could remain secure"). When Churchill replaced Chamberlain and obviously had little relish for Lennox-Boyd's views, he joined the coastal navy, but continued to show up in the House of Commons every time his escort vessel touched a Channel port. He caught the eye of the late Oliver Stanley, an imperialist Tory who was rethinking Britain's colonial position. Mellowed...
...work for money"). To this, Novelist Evelyn Waugh added a non-U note of his own: "All nannies and many governesses, when pouring out tea, put the milk in first." In the Spectator, the journalist "Strix" (Peter Fleming) pointed out that in U-speech there is "a relish for incongruity." Hence, a dull party can be a disaster, while a disaster (on the battlefield) can be a party. As for military U speech: "Although it is perfectly U to be wounded, it is slightly...
...James, concedes that it is written in the novelist's "late late style," which makes some of its insights tortuous though rewarding. But the book offers undivided nostalgic charm in its portrait of the carriage-trade world of pre-Civil War New York. And for those who relish tranquillity recollected in tranquillity, it affords a rare glimpse of the quietest fecundity in nature, an artist sinking roots in the soil of his creative imagination...
...there were new types of subs abuilding, and Doenitz still hoped to send the bulk of the U.S. war effort to the ocean floor. But for the most part, Historian Morison recites the details of battle after battle, sinking after sinking, with a sailor's relish that keeps the pages turning at a speed uncommon for readers of sound history. Several writers-notably Commander Edward L. Beach in Submarine! (TIME, June 9, 1952) and Run Silent, Run Deep (TIME, April 4)-have graphically described the fearful strain and special terrors of the submariner's life. Author Morison, with...