Word: delight
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Procrastinator's Delight...
...small group of ancients who were ancestors of us all. Now biologists suggest in a report to Nature that a single female living between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago in Africa was an ancestor of everyone on the earth today. Inevitably -- and to the probable delight of creationists -- many scientists are calling...
...delight of the Crimson faithful, who were hoping to see their team stay perfect in the Ivy League...
When his 18-month talkfest stopped, there were estimates that Lucas had committed as many as 600 killings. He was convicted in ten. Then suddenly, in early 1985, he started to take it all back. No doubt to his delight, that has created a monumental legal quagmire, which got deeper and stickier last week. The murder charge was dropped in the first Lucas case to be prosecuted since he changed his tune: the 1983 ax slaying of a 72-year-old El Paso woman, Librada Apodaca. Judge Brunson Moore found his confession involuntary and | ruled Lucas had not knowingly waived...
...Toni Kahlbacher, a Kitzbuhel snowplow maker, seems to have found a use for the tainted tipple. Kahlbacher mixed the wine with road salt to produce a concoction that melts ice more effectively than salt alone. That should delight both Agriculture officials and the Ministry of Public Construction, which estimates that clearing winter roads will take a third less salt thanks to the polluted wine...