Word: zest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...affairs, including his service as head of the U.S. Liaison Office in Peking. To have headed the CIA, championing its cause when so many critics were clobbering it, is now an unanticipated political plus. Finally, Bush, too, has changed, shedding his New England-bred modesty and campaigning with the zest of a man willing to boast of his past and proclaim his future: "I can feel it in my bones. I'm going to be President...
Some European pundits noted that the Italian and Spanish Communists had hedged their bets a trifle-neither party specifically demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops, and both balanced their attacks on Moscow with broad swipes at the U.S. In Italy, Berlinguer's zest to condemn the Kremlin was seen by many as a rather obvious attempt to project an image of his party as more European than Communist in order to improve its future electoral prospects Marchais's hard pro-Moscow line seemed to confirm the old quip of former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, who said that...
According to Author Perrin, a BBC journalist, only two minor characters in the book are fictional. His narrative, covering a 21-year span, captures the period with irony, authority and zest. Save for the delicious Daisy Newman, who used her loot to settle into suburban domesticity, virtually everyone who was directly or indirectly involved in the Edwardian caper came to a sad end, despite a noble battle by Sir Arthur Vicars to clear his name. Indeed, his cause became so famous that a relative of Vicars, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, offered at one point to join the fray. Alas...