Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...domestic program cuts, a group of Democratic Senators ate the kind of school lunch that would be allowable under new minimum standards proposed by the Agriculture Department-a 1.5-oz. beef and soybean patty, one slice of bread, six french fries, six ounces of milk, and catsup and relish as vegetables. Said Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "This is absolutely obscene." Shortly afterward, Stockman announced that the new proposals would be withdrawn. Said he: "It was a bureaucratic goof...
...many have already doubled the charge for reduced-price meals to 400. To help cafeterias cope, the Department of Agriculture cooked up new nutritional guidelines that would provide schoolchildren, for example, with 6 oz. of milk instead of 8 oz., and, absurdly, would allow schools to consider ketchup and relish as vegetables...
...Brown, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, clearly did not relish the idea of offending his environmentalist constituency. At midweek he ignored the recommendation of his own Medfly advisory committee and refused to allow aerial spraying. Brown explained that he did not want Californians "waking up in the middle of the night to those helicopters spraying the garden, the street light, the roof, the child's bicycle, the swimming pool and everything else...
...play from dissolving completely into schizophrenia, is played with just the right measure of perverse magnanimity. Clemenson has a commanding presence, and plays the part with a nice sense of discord--the Duke seems to have convinced himself that he is only delaying justice; he wanders around with great relish, half-distracted and yet half-taken with his own powers. In a wonderful scene at the play's end, the Duke is unmasked, and Clemenson prances, near-delighted and yet near-manic, too, as he tries to put together his patchwork solution; it is a very fine and subtle performance...
...sort of speaking engagement any President would enjoy. Ronald Reagan, however, seemed to take particular relish last week in addressing the 182nd commencement exercises at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Striding to the podium amid the rousing strains of Hail to the Chief, Reagan was greeted by thunderous applause from the 906 graduating cadets and 26,000 spectators in the academy's Michie Stadium. Then, in a speech lasting 25 minutes, interrupted 15 times by applause, Reagan declared that the country had grown out of its "Viet Nam syndrome" and vowed to continue his battle...