Word: savorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words into "an affirmation, a statement, a lamentation, in all its perplexity" revealed to Coles the susceptibilities he was heir to as a white, middle-class professional from a conservative family. He overcame impulses to rhapsodize about the poor, to emphasize only the negatives of their condition, and to savor the irreconcilable ironies and paradoxes of their doggedness before overwhelming odds...
There is, of course, something grimily banal and automatic about many of the racial stereotypes that salt the language. Yet sometimes they add a bit of savor. Are "French leave" and "Indian giver" to be expurgated? And what Bowdler at a performance of Hamlet will rise in protest when Horatio says, "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice"? Should that be "Polish persons...
...have been the most exhilarating experience of the year, but for those Harvard fans who savor each and every triumph over cross-town rival MIT, last night's fencing match at the IAB was sweet indeed...
...savor fully the Proustian experience in llliers-Combray, however, the pilgrim must meet a contemporary of the author's, 90-year-old Philibert Louis Larcher. A retired Inspector General of National Education, Larcher has devoted the past 30 years to reminding the town of its Proustian heritage. Through his efforts, the Tante Léonie house was made a national monument and the Pré Catalan was preserved. He founded the Society of the Friends of Marcel Proust and the Friends of Combray. His monograph, The Essence of Combray, has been revised and reissued just in time...
...above the previous high of 630 million tons in 1947. Largely as a result of the deepening national energy crisis, President Nixon recently asked Congress to double funding of research into new and cleaner ways of using the fuel that ran steamboats and locomotives. Before the industry can fully savor its new-found potential, however, it must overcome what John Corcoran, president of Consolidation Coal Co., calls a set of "horrendous short-range problems...