Word: relished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplied to keep him going after he had reached the top on his own. It had been as carefully planned from the start as a well-organized stock swindle. He had lied again and again, first indignantly denying all, then thrusting up new lies containing partial admissions. Almost with relish, Van Doren testified that he had been foolish, naive, prideful, avaricious. To the hilt, he was the anguished soul torn by struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there was barely a dry eye among the Congressmen. In an outburst of Senator Claghorn sentimentality, most lauded his "fortitude" and "soul...
...praise for its construction--of the $4.7 million new part. By contrast, Mather Hall, beautiful in its day, has now become second-rate. Without such "necessities" as elevators, private study-bedrooms, or large plate glass windows, the 27-year-old building holds little appeal. Quincy students consequently do not relish the thought of moving into Mather when this facility officially becomes part of Quincy next fall...
...really do things properly. There was a little of the Dionysian in Lucius too, and as a vender went by hawking food, Lucius raised his voice, "Please, one frankfurter." He sacrificed the coin and in a moment the frankfurter was his. To his horror it arrived covered with relish. Relish did not agree with Lucius, and he determined to take it home and scrape...
According to Carle T. Tucker, Director of the Dining Hall Department, officials began to become concerned with the large increase in College use of Harkness after an incident last week during which an undergraduate "overturned a relish dish"--apparently in protest against the rule of no second helpings...
...just as great. Once, the House of Morgan dealt only with the biggest customers, selected with great care, as if they were being privileged to join an exclusive club. The Morgan Guaranty still deals primarily with big customers, but it hunts them with all the relish of a pointer after quail. Alexander has 70 bright young men, his "bird dogs," who spend all their time hustling up new customers, keep them happy with everything from new or better ways to use their money to getting them theater tickets...