Word: relishes
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...than $1 an hour in tips. You notice if the tables are placed so that the waitresses can walk around without bumping into each other. I notice that especially because I used to work at the Pewter Pot where the tables are so close together that I spilled two relish trays and several cups of coffee on customers...
Prior records will mean little in today's contest: in fact, Penn may relish its underdog role. Last year the Quakers boasted having the finest collegiate squash team in years, but the Crimson embarrassed Penn badly with a lopsided 6-3 victory on the Quakers home turf. Penn hadn't lost at the Rindge courts in five years...
...from the only hearing that Treemonisha received during Joplin's lifetime-a run-through in a Harlem rehearsal hall. The black listeners in the hall did not like it. Ragtime Scholar Rudi Blesh speculates that they "were sophisticated enough to reject their folk past, but not sufficiently to relish a return to it in art." The composer was forced to publish the work at his own expense...
...Nixon's highhandedness with Congress. They want to do him in. But they dare not appear merely as obstructionist, and must give their party a positive congressional record on which to run. They know only too well that Nixon, like Truman, is the kind of gut fighter who would relish giving them hell...
...home, a President must be able to move the nation as well as Congress. As for the nation, it remains in doubt whether he can indeed move it and (as he himself said he wanted to do) rekindle the Spirit of '76. As for Congress, Nixon does not relish the sweaty rituals of persuasion and blandishment that are necessary to marshal support on the Hill?especially when facing a Democratic majority. Indeed, one of the continuing surprises of Nixon's presidency is that Nixon, regarded as a master politician, is not very good at dealing with the politicians in Congress...