Word: relishingly
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...policy had to move either forward or back. The Army last week was moving forward, although military men in Washington did not relish the Korean war in its present framework. The State Department was still hanging back...
There is no question that Novelist Caldwell knows how to serve up her gossip with relish. And in the process, she occasionally produces the same kind of little home truths that a good soap-opera scripter turns out. Readers who find it worthwhile to wade through 496 pages of Novelist Caldwell's fast typing in search of such finds will undoubtedly set sales of The Balance Wheel to rising as merrily as those of its twelve predecessors...
...Justice William O. Douglas told his own off-the-bench story in Of Men and Mountains, one of the most satisfying self-portraits of the year. From another century and another kind of man came Boswell's London Journal, a gamy confession that many readers tackled with more relish than they ever had for Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson...
Those who traveled less than Casanova embellished their drawing rooms with fragile fancies: a clock mounted on a chariot drawn along the mantelpiece by galloping gilt horses, or a monkey with a lorgnette in one hand and a tiny cigar in the other, smoking with bestial relish, or a dueling pistol which, with a pull of the trigger, released a tiny singing bird...
...visitor might wonder just what keeps the P.B.H. men this side of a nervous breakdown. Running a three-ring circus is a challenge, but they all seem to relish...