Word: relished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand with economic decentralization, but greater prosperity may be an antidote to the kind of crises that have all too often brought in Soviet tanks in the past. Gorbachev has his own reasons for wanting to avert another explosion of unrest in, say, Poland, since his conservative comrades would relish proof that reform breeds anarchy...
Located next to Charlie's Kitchen, whose famed Double Cheeseburger Special is about the only other remnant of unabashedly American food left in the Square, Chicago Frank's specializes in Vienna Beef wieners, prepared the Chicago way, with mustard, ketchup, relish, onions, jalapenos and tomato wedges, in a soft, gushy, poppy seed-coated Coney roll. You can also buy a double dog, with two franks in a single roll. Variations include chili dogs, cheese dogs and corn dogs. Putting aside visions of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, we gave the establishment...
...This dog was drowning in what passes in Chicago for chili, a concoction of ground beef and kidney beans more notable for its heat than its spice. We also tried the Basic Dog. Here, at last, was the dog we had sought, unadorned--well, except for mustard, ketchup, relish, etc. Ya gotta have those...
This is the sort of guff one can hear on The Morton Downey Jr. Show, yet it is one of the perverse pleasures of reading Fussell that he can play the loudmouth and the egghead with equal relish. One of his models is George Orwell, who hid his social pedigree and erudition behind a blunt style that shook comfortable perceptions with irony and contradictions. When Fussell goes to the races at the Indianapolis Speedway, for example, he begins with the standard derisive sociology about the "middles" in the reserved seats and the black-leather set that gathers in the muddy...
...Some may relish this atmosphere of trial and tensions, but I know that I have felt fortunate ever since that I did not for very long have to suffer the pulling and hauling of being a unionized employee. Osborne F. Ingram...