Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unity of Spirit. Matador Fisher is no Manolete. He has not distinguished himself as a brilliant thinker, magnetic speaker or prophetic leader, like his predecessor, Dr. William Temple. His pipe-smoking good humor and gregariousness have made him a delight to get along with ("Quarreling with him is impossible," says one of his canons). He administered the Anglican Church with the same efficiency he once showed as headmaster of Repton, one of Britain's best schools; and his clergy, though woefully underpaid, is better off than when he took office. But he failed to inspire the majority of Anglicans...
...answer was somewhere in between, and some distance from ideology. To those who had not sensed it during the campaign, Kennedy was making clearer every day that while he is full of ideas, he is far from a doctrinaire ideologist; that he possesses political skills and instincts that would delight his personal political hero, F.D.R...
...since 1946. But he has shown a sixth-sense ability to spot, recruit and excite able researchers, and has developed unexpected talents in fund raising and speechmaking. Beadle is even that rare scientist who takes an interest in money matters; he avidly reads the Wall Street Journal, and took delight in driving a $250 model A Ford for 22 years, then selling...
...jobs was the search for homes-especially in stately old Georgetown, where an outlandish real estate boom was well under way. The big attraction was proximity to the Kennedys' home on N Street-even though the Kennedys will soon be moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Home sellers take delight in burbling that their little gem is "just nine blocks from the Kennedys," and the closer the address, the higher the price. One brick row house across the street from the Kennedy home-in a bad state of disrepair-is priced...
Still, when they danced, it was a delight to hold Eugenie, and later, she gave him a devastating good-night kiss. As Wellington watched the shapely form disappear behind the closing door, he reflected on the vagaries of life. "I suppose one must learn to compromise," he mused. As he stood there thinking, his hands unconsciously made the sign of an hour-glass. Wellington started at the airy figure he had drawn, shrugged his shoulders, and went home...