Word: relished
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These boudoir conquests are succeeded by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt. (Rémi is one of a corps of French savants whom Napoleon takes along to bring civilization to the benighted Arabs.) Author McKenney handles battles with as much relish as bundling. The rout of the Mamelukes at the Pyramids is closely followed by the annihilation of the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, and Napoleon and his army of 25,000 settle down for their strange three-year sojourn in Egypt. The impact of the French Age of Enlightenment on the 12th century mentality of the fellahin gives...
...must drink, it should be done with flourish as well as with relish. This is somewhat difficult at Harvard because the Faculty Committee on Athletics outlawed "conspicuous drinking" at football games...
...still revelations. A woman determinedly denies her love to her stepchild with the noble but misguided intent of preserving the child's love for his real mother; she ends by alienating the child from both. Enemies, a study of the egoism of old age, suggests that the old relish nothing so much as the death of fellow oldsters...
...does not relish the prospect of a third go-round. Bradley's big hope was that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command would jettison the Brotherhood, call off the election demand, and take the I.L.A. to its breast. But first he had to convince Meany that his orphaned group measured up to the readmission standards that had been set for it three years ago, e.g., that it had purged itself "of all semblance of crime, dishonesty and racketeering," and had established "democratic ideals...
Though gourmets the world over relish it, no one can get quite as passionate about French bread as the French. For them, the long, crusty loaf called a baguette is not only a gustatory delight and a dietary necessity but a supercharged political commodity as well. On the dark day in 1789 when a mob of hungry women marched twelve miles through the mud to Versailles to haul King Louis XVI off to his doom, their war cry was "Bread! Bread!" and their fury was fed by Marie Antoinette's fateful "Let them eat cake." Last week...