Word: relishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high places had been filled with small men who seemed intent on proving that great men were obsolete. They had fiddled and fussed, explained and complained. Now Winston Churchill returned to power-a man who bore the consciousness of his own stature proudly, who shouldered responsibility with sober relish-a man who was a mover rather than a victim...
...second grand jury investigation began, he flatly charged the Treasury Department with withholding secret reports. The reports were produced, and Finnegan was indicted on two counts of bribetaking and three of misconduct (TIME, Oct. 22). In a speech the following month, Williams announced to the Senate, with mild relish, that Commissioner George Schoeneman, boss of the Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue, "has turned in his resignation today." Then he added: "It is rather interesting to note that the collector of Internal Revenue in the Boston district was suspended this morning...
...spray shot into the air and a throaty roar echoed over the grainfields outside Edmonton. Within minutes, a bumper-to-bumper line of cars was moving out of the city along the westbound Jasper highway, heading for the new Acheson oilfield, seven miles away. There a crowd gathered to relish a familiar but stirring sight. Alberta's newest oil well was blowing in wildly, gushing up 200 feet and spitting blobs of copper-black crude for half a mile around...
Marie du Port (Bellon-Foulke International) is a rueful French comedy relating, with De Maupassant relish, the unequal struggle between a middle-aged roue (Jean Gabin) and an innocent young barmaid (Nicole Courcel), who is the young sister of his mistress. While his mistress attends her father's funeral in a Breton fishing village, Gabin idles about the town, casts a speculative eye on a boat which is for sale and on the barmaid who is not. Both boat and barmaid bring him back to tiny Port-au-Bessein, but he is unable to enjoy either: the boat...
...Choosing words carefully . . . Comrade Trotsky said: 'The lands bordering the Pacific will be the scene of the world's most important events. Europe does not relish this any more than it relishes the fact that the United States has become the most dominant power in the world . . . We not only sympathize with the Chinese revolutionists, but, if we could, we would gladly drown in Shanghai waters all who intervene...