Word: basked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring breezes last week tore the clouds over Britain to shreds. The sun broke through, warming the crocuses in Regent's Park, lighting up the pink almond blossoms in the suburbs, and providing British journalists with a neat symbol. For Britons could bask in a good deal of good news. Austerity was thawing...
Long irked because U.S. oilmen pooh-poohed their efforts, Albertans could bask at last in recognition from Tulsa's Oil and Gas Journal: "Probably the most noteworthy development in the Western Hemisphere is the rapid rise in 1948 [oil] output in Canada...
Harry Truman had to sign two important bills, one providing anti-inflation controls (see above) and one providing funds for interim aid. Otherwise, about all he had to do last week was to take things easy, bask in the family circle warmth of holiday time and indulge his fancy for gadgets...
...Haven Harvard-Yale Game since before the War. Together with their colored feathers and old fur coats, they bring traditions and memories of Mahan and Heffelfinger, Booth and Wood, Frank and Struck--great names of ten or thirty years ago. But more than that, they come anxious to bask in the spirit and participate in the festivities of the occasion; to join with the two teams in writing a new chapter in the unique legend of this...
...Roll By," it is the harmless sort of narrative involving no backstage inamoratas or tearful college reunions. According to the film, the greatest difficulties in Kern's life were a ne'er-do-well arranger and his (Kern's) stagestruck daughter. With that casually attended to, the audience can bask in the warmth of some of the finest music America has produced in the popular vein...