Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rumanian weight lifters, who won more medals (eight) than any other country in the house. "I have participated in many competitions, and this is the warmest I've seen," said Rumanian Weight-Lifting Coach Stefan Achim. For their part, Rumanians were just as friendly. Some roamed with relish through Disneyland and Hollywood's movie studios. Others accepted invitations to private homes in Los Angeles, where they relaxed around the pool and chatted with neighbors who dropped by to greet them...
...politics, sex or race, hardball hosts relish a verbal brawl...
...still doing penance for his suicide jump into the Minnesota River. She also bears a demon child who invades the bodies of animals and people in order to kill all suspected enemies of ... Bob Glandier. In his tenth novel, Author Thomas M. Disch, 44, serves up such improbabilities with relish; the result is an entertaining nightmare out of Thomas Berger and Stephen King...
Reagan seems to relish the coming duel with Mondale. At press conferences, the President, 73 and hard of hearing, sometimes appears inarticulate and unsure of the facts. But at last week's session he was feisty and sharp. Questioned about Carter's prediction that Reagan might try to duck a debate with Mondale, the President fairly jumped at the chance to mimic his devastating line from the 1980 debate with Carter. Declared Reagan...
...might be less fun for those folks who seem to relish the story of security agents and protective apparatus as much as what Presidents and Prime Ministers do and say. No more yarns about "the sinister black briefcase" carrying nuclear codes, or the "android image" of the Secret Service, or how agents switch revolver style when they change clothes from casual (Smith & Wesson Model 10) to formal (Walther PPK), or the press "baying for names and quotes." Unfortunately, the prose that would result would be far more prosaic. The sense of pomp and ceremony and history would be sacrificed...