Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason is the failure to apply to medical schools where students have a reasonable chance of acceptance. Admissions directors unanimously delight in saying that all medical schools in the United States are Grade A. Nevertheless, as any student knows, there is more than one way to get an A, and some schools are naturally more reknown than others...
ZORBA THE GREEK. The hell, the horror and the sheer animal delight of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are served up larger than life by Director Michael Cacoyannis, with Anthony Quinn magnificently cast as the goatish old Greek who butts his way through a series of disasters...
Within four months, Churchill, then 25, was elected Tory M.P. for Oldham, a sturdy working-class constituency in the industrial north. To finance his new career, he earned $50,000 in five months by lecturing to packed audiences throughout Britain, then the U.S. He knew at once how to delight Americans. When a reporter asked him what he thought of New York, Churchill said gravely: "Newspaper too thick, lavatory paper too thin...
...probably has none, but precocious success is not the way to win facile friendship. In the Army especially, where the young are expected not to know better than their elders--or, at least, to keep their knowledge to themselves--his assurance has earned him many snubs. One general will delight in his light-hearted omniscience, the next, and the next, and the next will put a subaltern in his place. But Winston Churchill cannot be snubbed. His self-confidence bobs up irresistibly, though seniority and common sense and facts themselves conspire to force it down...
That leaves the squad in the hands of field events coach Ed Stowell. Stowell will be intent on making a good showing against B.C. since the Boston sportswriters delight in calling Gilligan the Bay's best coach in field performers...