Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanders somewhere between farce and fantasy, is very amusing in its own right. The play relates the adventures of three its own right. The play relates the adventures of three thieves who become the guests of a rich and thoroughly bored old woman in search of diversion. The three relish their new life so much that they stay on to enjoy their hosts' fine brandy and the company of the household's two young ladies. But a romance, inevitably, between one of the girls and the youngest rogue finally brings the idyll...
...childhood. "We despised him entirely and completely for . . . his kindness and good nature . . . Our great triumph [was] when we nearly drowned him." Says Gary: "We were little anti-Christs." Readers who insist on a well-made, plot-laden novel had better pass this one up, but those who relish reminiscences of childhood' will find that it goes down fine -with a healthy, natural swoosh, like water through a chimney...
...display of Gallic logic, convince themselves that murder is the answer. They feed Paul a sleeping potion (Simone professionally raises his eyelid with her thumb to be sure he is really out cold) and then drown him in a bathtub while the camera records every detail with an evil relish-right down to putting a heavy bronze lion on his chest to keep his head under water...
...West who took this to mean that Russia would be more reasonable about German reunification. Molotov did not wait long to disabuse them. Back in Geneva, face to face with the Western Big Three around the green-topped table in the Salle du Conseil, Molotov revealed with relish that the "better baggage" he brought from Moscow was a fresh blast of cold...
...mine accident; then he decided to sell the horse to the Marines for $250 in order to buy his sister an artificial leg. On the front lines, Reckless became both a mascot and an efficient carrier of ammunition for a recoilless ("Reckless") rifle platoon, 5th Marines. She learned to relish C-rations and Wheaties, and to drink beer out of a helmet or a glass. She also learned to string communications wire efficiently and to kneel down when enemy fire came close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph...