Word: relishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Krishna Menon, now India's Defense Minister. Asked by a cameraman to keep talking with Menon, Lodge quipped: "Oh, we won't have any trouble about that!" Cane in one hand, Menon plucked jovially at the garlands around Lodge's neck, apologized with some relish: "I'm sorry there are bugs in your flowers...
...grand stairway, lined with upperclassmen clapping and cheering, until you reach the top where beaming and blushing abashedly you sign your name and receive the dark blue and red and yellow and green striped club tie from the president. A final huzzah then you and the rest turn with relish to the serious business of the evening, consuming as much alcohol as possible. Everyone is shaking hands and slapping each other on the back. It is a bacchanalian love-feast and you drink freely...
...Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles is becoming Washington's newest scapegoat for its defense troubles. Scientist-Engineer Quarles (Western Electric and Bell Labs) is being blamed for enforcing former Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson's stretch-out and cutback policies with too little protest and too much relish. On Capitol Hill, within a fortnight investigating committees of both House and Senate have been critical of Quarles. In the Pentagon, he is in disfavor with the Navy (for criticizing super carriers), with the Army (for refusing it medium-range missiles), and with the Air Force, although...
Endowed as he was with a keen eye for nature and a relish for country ways, Bruegel had the good fortune to come of age at a time when men were for the first time since the Middle Ages beginning to think of art apart from religious painting. The widespread taste for everyday scenes for home decoration was handled in tapestries for the rich; for the less well-to-do, it fell to the "stayned clothe" works on perishable fine linen turned out by the watercolorists. It was to this tradition, with its set format, sharply delineated forms and flat...
Like many other newspapers abroad, the Japanese press played the news from Arkansas with ill-concealed relish. But Japan's most influential daily, Asahi Shimbun, pointedly reminded its readers that perhaps Japan is in no position to throw rocks at Little Rock...