Word: savors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence bordering on serenity that has overtaken the Republican Party in recent months. Quite aside from the Democrats' problems -the possibility of a McGovern nomination, which the G.O.P. would welcome, or a Democratic schism, which would be at least equally advantageous to the Republicans-the Nixon forces can savor all of the unique advantages of incumbency...
...whether that will make much of a difference in meat prices. On a per capita basis, imports last year accounted for only 11 Ibs. of the average 192 Ibs. of meat eaten by Americans. Imports have been low partly because of quotas and partly because of quality. While Americans savor the well-marbled steaks and tender roasts that come from grain-fed cattle, foreign ranchers generally raise grass-fed cattle, which produces leaner meat. In the U.S., imported beef is usually ground up into hamburgers and hot dogs...
Except that this time the victim survived. There would be no lying in state, no funeral train, no mournful services for the nation to attend by television. Like Tom Sawyer at his own funeral, Alabama's George Corley Wallace could savor both obsequies and survival. The morning after the shooting last week in a Maryland shopping center, Wallace, half-paralyzed, could lie in his hospital bed and feistily ask an aide: "Whatja got me scheduled for today?" The next day he would read the news of his primary triumphs in Maryland and Michigan...
...days. By then the mixture, known as "still beer," is ready to run. Says the old moonshiner proudly: "My whisky's got a mighty good taste. If it's made right, it's better than any Government whisky you drunk in your life." With a savor somewhere between kerosene and old overshoe, it is definitely an acquired taste...
...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...