Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reform party is split between those who relish the taste of populist bile in their mouths and those who believe the party can one day gain the influence to help fix what is broken in American politics. The first half has hailed pundit-cum-politician Pat Buchanan with a lusty come-aboard; the latter group, led by grappler-turned-governor Jesse Ventura, has begun to throw candidates at the would-be GOP ship-jumper, in the hopes that someone else ? anyone else ? will carry the Reform flag toward higher political ground, and not downhill. Someone who will help keep...
...that often when he saw Stoughton he would squeal, "Take my picture Taptain Toughton." And once when Stoughton had snapped a frame of John-John playing with a rabbit, he asked if the boy would take a picture of him with the rabbit. John-John took the camera with relish and clicked the shutter like a pro. In Stoughton's book The Memories, that one is the only photograph that the captain did not take. It is now another fragment of the profound Kennedy story of promise and fun and unfathomable sadness...
...Here's to whale savers and the wolf lovers and all the lovely birders. Here's to the citizens who organize the parades and the beauticians who volunteer to do the ladies' hair at the old folks' home. Here's to the people who make a lot of pickle relish and give some to their neighbors. Here's to the blue-haired ladies who put rhinestone collars on their miniature poodles and all the kids who wear their baseball hats on backwards. Here's to the break dancers and the rappers and the rock groups with names like Throbbing Gristle...
...there are a wealth of professors you haven't heard of yet, but you'll come to relish: Helen H. Vendler and Marjorie Garber in English, Werner Sollors in Afro-American Studies, Robert Coles '50 in psychology...
...entire focus seems to be addressing internal and external complaints. The Undergraduate Council has often degenerated into bitching sessions in which members complain about the structure of the council, its lack of legitimacy and the partisanship of its leaders. While I too have engaged in such sessions, often with relish, I must admit that it is time for a change. Truly constructive criticism spurs progress. So, to all those people out there who want to complain about love on this campus, you can take your slot machine and stuff it. I don't want to hear it, and I know...