Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less potent to the world, but at home Stalin could be made to appear a conquering hero, having won the U. S. S. R.'s first outside fight since its formation. The Germans would again enjoy a solid rearguard of neutrals. And the Allies would again savor the bitter hopelessness of trying to be the moral and political chaperones of a part of the world they cannot get an Army into...
...this point Biographer Quennell is amusing, then his story begins to take on a savor of majesty as Queen Caroline moves into middle age. George II was pig headed, rude and outrageous with Caroline but she remained irresistible to him to the end. With his mistress, Lady Suffolk, he was dutiful, visiting her punctually every evening at nine; with Caroline he was romantic, and his vast letters to her from abroad are, even in their descriptions of his passing affairs, among the most eloquent and moving love letters of the time. Ever affectionate and submissive, adroit enough...