Word: savorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMHERST--When the Harvard-UMass women's soccer game ended yesterday with an overtime score of 4-3, your first reaction was merely to savor the exciting, aggressive styles of both teams. Then, like a bitter aftertaste, you remembered that the Crimson had lost its first game of the season...
Then, in an obvious pitch to ethnic groups in which his support is eroding, he claimed that the U.S. is "not a melting pot. We are more like a pot of minestrone." In case his audience did not savor that line, he went on to say that among the top-level Italian Americans in his Administration was Vice President "Mondali." There was a strained chuckle...
...those endless notes on his yellow pads. At other times he seemed more like a participant in group therapy. He wanted to hear what was wrong with him, how he had failed. Give it to him with the bark off, again and again. He seemed at times almost to savor the punishment. For hours, for days, Jimmy Carter counseled with dozens of diverse citizens flown to the Maryland mountaintop. He was writing one of the most extraordinary chapters in presidential decision making...
...fervor of this painting, almost literally an opposition of fire and ice, is comparatively rare in Chardin's output. Generally his still lifes declare themselves more slowly. One needs to savor the Jar of Apricots, for instance, before discovering its resonances, which are not only visual but tactile: how the tambour lid of the round box accords with the oval shape of the canvas itself and is echoed by the drumlike tightness of the paper tied over the apricot jar; how the horizontal axis of the table is played upon by the stuttering line of red-wineglass, fruit...
...Savor the moment. For the first time in history, two women were the principals in the traditional "kissing hands upon appointment"?a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory over James Callaghan's Labor Party. The Tories won a solid...