Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jews" (more cheers, knowing laughter). "Who were the enemies of Jesus?" (cries of "Jews!"). "The Jewish lobby has a stranglehold on the U.S. Government" (cries of "Yes!," "Tell 'em, Brother!"). "I am your last chance, Jews." It will be too late "when God puts you in the oven" (ovation, delight...
Thomas Jefferson, author of our blueprint for independence and designer of Monticello and the University of Virginia, said it confidently: "Architecture is my delight, and putting up, and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements." Heirs to the Palladian vision are more subdued. The modern couple who decide to build a house had better check their marital foundations first. For his part, the architect must patiently extract straight lines from his clients' tangled desires. He must also establish a working truce with his natural enemy, the builder. Then there is the money, probably the largest amount most people will ever...
...Date Match, first announced last Monday in a full-page advertisement in The Harbus News and on flyers distributed around the Wellesley campus, has elicited disgust rather than delight from women at both campuses...
After his arrest for cocaine trafficking, DeLorean became a born-again Christian and began attending weekly Bible study classes. He never gave up his dream. As he writes in his autobiography, "I would delight in being able to resurrect the DeLorean car." He and a group of investors including Marvin Katz, an Ohio-based auto-parts distributor, hope to start a modest venture that would turn out 250 cars annually, possibly in Columbus...
...glorious Jones) were embraced by the canons of academe. But imagining this, one can also hear Daffy grouse, "What a revoltin' development thith ith." Better, perhaps, for the Warner siblings to wear their garlands lightly, or let them fall off, while their antics continue to provide not so innocent delight for another millennium or so of children. The rest of us can find our wicked frissons in Warner's cartoon art and laugh hysterically all the way to the museum...