Word: relishing
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Knightley estimates that the CIA now employs about 16,000 people. Add to that the million or more who are directly engaged in deception and analysis throughout the world, and the potential for chaos is enormous. As the author's survey of modern snooping illustrates with unrestrained relish, free- lancers, self-serving desk jockeys, double and triple agents turn espionage into what James J. Angleton, former chief of the CIA's counterintelligence division, called a "wilderness of mirrors...
...relish being bashed around," says Bowen, but he adds, "I'm not a quitter. If I believe in something, I want to give it my best shot." Bowen has recently made two appearances before Reagan's domestic-policy council, and last week he again took his sheaves of facts and figures to the White House. $ Reagan was a sympathetic listener. "We all know somebody who's been hit by something like this," the President said. "It's simply not fair that middle- class people can be wiped out financially by an unfortunate health problem." But Bowen's numerous critics were...
...waft," Barber encourages, beginning to relish the sound...
Karl probably has heard the tale several times before because in the Tasty, which holds to the motto "Round the clock conviviality with mustard, onions and relish," most things are constant and there is always a sense of circular return. Indeed just after most of the men left for their jobs some of the Harvard football players who had been there the previous night sat down at the counter in ties and blazers. They were having breakfast before they left for a road game and this time, in the sedate atmosphere of early morning, Karl didn't make them...
...demos relish those little triumphs, and work their butts off, because they never know when they'll get the chance to play with the varsity...