Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanders did not relish their paradoxical position. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander in the China theater, had discussed his difficulties in Washington, urging a clearer directive and a more forthright policy. He did not get what he wanted. Last week, on his way back to China, the General did some public thinking about the U.S. stake in China's civil strife. "There is no doubt," he said, "that the turn of events in an area embracing half the world's population must inevitably affect our country-economically, psychologically and perhaps militarily." In Shanghai Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid...
Whatever the label, Congress was faced with a hard choice. Few Congressmen relish the responsibility of leaving any stone unturned in the quest for U.S. security. Yet there are a few dissenters even in the high command of the Army, Air Forces and Navy (e.g., Admiral Nimitz) who question the effectiveness of a year's peacetime training, however arduous...
...relish, with my fellow Americans, peace's minor blessings . . . pleasure driving, prospects of T-bones and Nylons...
...chosen by the author and screened by the translator to accent the quaint and unusual. Yet Ricardo Palma, if he has a U.S. counterpart, was his country's Washington Irving. His tales merely serve to accent the vastly different heritages of two Western Hemisphere nations. His own countrymen relish Palma's brigands and cutthroats because they are heirs to the tradition that life is a grim, bitter joke and had best be laughed at. Sample Palma ironies...
...Outside Munich's Gothic Rathaus, now the seat of the U.S. Military Government, I talked with a short, stocky corporal who told with relish how he had just returned from forbidden Vienna, where he had served with a liaison mission. That mission, he said, was carried out successfully in an atmosphere of trust and good will. And incidentally, he added that the Viennese seemed surprised but happy under Russian occupation, which so far has netted them a larger food ration than Austrians get in the American zone, and also a government chosen from their own people...