Word: savoring
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...Bell for Adano," is newly arrived in Moscow to take up his latest assignment succeeding Dick Lauterbach, who is returning to New York after nine months in Russia. (When the Red Armies start rolling over the "holy soil" of Germany, Hersey will tell you how the Muscovites savor this well-earned vengeance...
...Columbia University, students flocked to savor "Uncle Charlie's" bottomless knowledge and quinine wit. In 1913, after months of delving in the dust-choked records of the U.S. Treasury Department, he published An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, suggesting that the Founding Fathers belonged to a group influenced as much by material self-interest as by love of liberty. Conservatives exploded...
Pierre Monteux is also one of the very few Frenchmen whose favorite composer is the arch-Germanic Johannes Brahms. San Franciscans have marveled at the Rhine wine savor of his Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, as well as the elegance of his Debussy and Ravel. Pierre Monteux's ranging tastes and orchestral mastery have come to him during a lifetime in which he has conducted no less than 63 symphony orchestras in Europe...
Mostly middle-aged men were on hand to savor this Celtic irony. Lieut. General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of U.S. Marines, explained the absentees: there are 550 men "by the name of Reilly alone" in the Marine Corps...
This part of the novel loses its savor almost as soon as Uncle Kim is buried. Readers may quickly forget the farcical, burlesque-show complications of the Tussies (46 of them move into a mansion; Grandpa greets the sheriff who comes to evict them with the query: "How many boys did you have to die for our country...