Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre parcel of land in his native South Carolina just north of Charleston. Hobcaw was nature's Xanadu, a game hunter's paradise especially famed for its massed armadas of ducks. Toward the end of his book, getting ahead of his story, Bernard Baruch tells with dramatic relish and glowing pride of F.D.R.'s month-long recuperative retreat at Hobcaw in the spring...
...phrase) have built up an entire martyrology of people who supposedly suffered as a result of invoking the Fifth before congressional committees. A leading exponent of this position is Harvard Law School's Dean Erwin Griswold, whose book. The Fifth Amendment Today, Hook takes apart with precision and relish...
...cold water every morning. Painful but exhilarating . . . Eat fresh fish for breakfast. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord...
John Wesley, a specialist in bringing the wicked to their senses, conceded that for work of this kind, nothing was handier than an earthquake. "There is no divine visitation." he wrote with a connoisseur's relish, "which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners." Methodism's Founder Wesley thus neatly expressed the theme of a curious and scholarly account of the great Lisbon earthquake, in which Sir Thomas D. (for Downing) Kendrick now traces the long-forgotten relation between sin and seismology...
...Indian we had killed, for we had no oil, and had a good supper on some of the dogs they breed to eat. The houses were deserted and the food had been carried off ... but during the night [the dogs] returned to their houses and we snatched them with relish...