Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party leadership has been under pressure from the rank-&-file, millions of whom are so new to the party that they still think for themselves. The militant members did not relish the idea of tame Communist participation in a government headed by moderate Georges Bidault. To appease this sentiment, the party's legislative leader Jacques Duclos (who knows better) permitted an all-out Communist effort to prevent the seating of certain Rightist deputies elected by the people...
...voyage from Bikini, Juda and his people ate K-rations with apparent relish. Progress chuckled over a victory. But as soon as they reached Rongerik, the islanders fell upon the coconuts and the sweet, tough pandanus fruit strewn about the beach...
...took him ten years to get the philosophy post, and only a few more to become the biggest drawing-card on the faculty. Characteristically, he did not relish so much success: large classes obliged him to give lectures; he preferred small groups...
...power. Speculating on the reception abroad of the news . . . Pravda continues: 'It is not difficult to guess that the results . . . came as an extremely unpleasant surprise to those who had hoped for a weakening of the solidarity of the Soviet people and those who do not relish Soviet democracy...
...many a North Conway Yankee doesn't like what's happening. In tight-lipped down-east fashion, they object to "all this foreign element" from New York. They don't relish losing their wintertime leisure, just to make more money than they had ever dreamed of. Grumbled one: "We're so busy we don't even have time to look at that mountain any more...