Word: relished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swastika. What seems clear is that New Haven police charged and swung their nightsticks with unnecessary relish as they tried to disperse a crowd that probably did not need dispersing. One Yalie got an eight-stitch dent in his skull, and a young, chesterfield-wearing history teacher was arrested and then, he claims, punched in the kidneys. A fire truck showed up, hosed down a dormitory that had a swastika and yacht flags in its windows. By the end of the brawl, 16 Yalemen, most of them the worse for wear, had been wagoned off to police headquarters-where they...
...next day the New Hamburger was born. It was the same as before, but it had a pickle relish and peppers and ground-up cole slaw, and it cost a nickel more. They smiled at the Bick, smiled quietly, and waited...
...which he had pressed "my old friend" former Governor Averell Harriman to revisit Moscow now that Nelson Rockefeller had freed him to travel. Mikoyan paid tribute to American women -"they were very nice to us; they cannot hide their feelings as well as a man" -and recalled with evident relish his luncheon with those archvillains of Communist mythology, the bankers of Wall Street...
...throw pickets around police headquarters, police depots and supply stations. Hoped-for result: fellow Teamsters would refuse to deliver police supplies, and-as Feinstein put it-Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy (TIME, July 7) would "get a taste of Teamster economic force and pressure. The commissioner," said Feinstein, with considerable relish, "will freeze in his office...
Taking Josie to bed and to wife is not a rational act on Dillon's part, but an admission of defeat; a retreat into the ghastly middle-class morass that he describes so frequently and with such emphatic relish; a form of suicide. Having effected this mock-death, he speaks his own epitaph, in which he convicts himself of total futility...