Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bolted their party, were the latest instances of a new sort of Texas political charivari: the "resignation rally." Out of such a rally in Fort Worth came some 600 signed resignation cards; at Harlingen about 150 switched; at Littlefield, 126. Rallies are now being held almost weekly, to the delight of G.O.P. leaders fired up by last May's election of Republican John Tower to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
With an experienced smirk, Portfolio expressed his educated delight. "Samuel Tech played a beautifully judged game. we was murdered, and we deserved it. By the way, did you see how Billy Oval-tine destroyed our sneak forward-to-half bumper with those circular drops? Masterful!" (Ovaltine is the Sambo's all-East ace borderback...
...where, for $5, she got herself tattooed with her name and social security number (023-22-9834). Alleged reason: "In this day of possible large-scale disaster, all of us should wear identification." Alleged site of identification: the lower abdomen. Explained the sultry singer, as her pressagent showed unconcealed delight: "I couldn't think of a more inconspicuous place...
...style, clarity and wit. He was a practical man given to phonetic spelling (ake, crum, skreen). He was a feeling man given to personalizing his definitions: "All sin is hateful in the sight of God and of good men." Or: "In short, we love whatever gives us pleasure and delight, whether animal or intellectual; and if our hearts are right, we love God above all things ..." The newest Webster's sacrifices all such eloquence for dry and technical accuracy...
...FELICITY, BEATITUDE, BLESSEDNESS, BLISS: HAPPINESS is the general term denoting enjoyment of or pleasurable satisfaction in wellbeing, security, or fulfillment of wishes (pleasures may come about through chance contact and stimulation; such pleasures are not to be despised in a world full of pain. But happiness and delight are a different sort of thing. They come to be through a fulfillment that reaches to the depths of our being - one that is an adjustment of our whole being with the conditions of existence -John Dewey) FELICITY, a more bookish or elevated word, may denote a higher, more lasting, or more...