Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown fans had built themselves up to a state of delirium by the time the game had begun. Then Bruin forward Terry Chapman scored on a hard shot past goalie Godfrey Wood, and the delight on the Brown side of the rink knew no bounds...
...scholars headed by his great-grandfather, who was president of Harvard and editor of the five-foot shelf, Eliot ignores headlines and the cold war and makes his study nature. What he finds-from the eagle-hung abyss below Delphi to the song of the local vegetable man-delights him, and he passes on his delight to the reader in prose that is sometimes eloquent, sometimes merely latter-day inspirational. "The stars rained down their incandescent spears in sharply patterned salvos upon Mount Pentelikon and me. Staggering a little with my face uplifted, rapt in the ringing of a dark...
...Delight your girl friend, sister or mother Christmas morning with a pair of mink ear muffs from Sak's for only $15. Among Sak's fine collection of compacts, umbrellas, cigarette lighters, pocketbooks and perfumes, you are sure to find something to please all the women in your life...
...timing for which he is worshipped, Quouguou waits until the lepers have drawn very close to the writhing figure of M. Tati, their bells clanging. Then he cuts abruptly to the bells of the church. We follow the bell rope until, at its end we discover, to our spiritual delight, the dangling body of Mme de Gaulle, her face almost hidden, but unmistakable, under a carpet of ants. With a holy grace Quouquou dissolves to Colombey-les-Deux Eglises where, ironically enough M. de Gaulle is praying for his wife's soul while his servants sneak up behind him with...
...Elephants' final touchdown was an esthetic delight. The passing of second-string quartback Elliot Tompkins had moved Eliot to the Bulldog ten. Tompkins rolled out to the right, and three Yalie defensemen apparently had him trapped; but Tompkins leaped into the air and threw a perfect strike to end Dick Sorenson, giving Eliot its third score of the game...