Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick six-day tour of the province, for an oldtimer, is a delight. The small towns throb again, their booths full of sweets, cookies, housewares, clothes, textiles, flower pots and flowers. In big cities like Chengdu and Chongqing, the huge food markets overwhelm the eye with food that can be bought without coupons. Hogs come squealing to market in wheelbarrows, on tractors, even lashed to the backs of bicycles, then reappear in the markets as huge slabs of pink-and-white pork. Peasants bring in their wives' squawking chickens, eight to a basket. Down the market lanes peasants sell geese...
Harvard professors have stories to tell about their summer vacations that would delight any expository writing instructor or fill hours of fourth-grade show-and-tell...
...life in general. During our hour together, Aquino laughed frequently and talked with near contagious warmth about the University, faculty and students he had encountered--and the United States. And when he spoke in admiration of this nation's democratic system, he did so with an almost wide-eyed delight of having discovered something new, not the haughty aloofness one might expect from a leading political figure...
...best not to spend too long trying to explain the attractions of the musical version of La Cage aux Folles, which opened on Broadway Sunday night. The chemistry is right, and it is hard to imagine an audience that will not leave the Palace Theater fairly glowing with delight...
...separation from its parents. At twelve months, the golden age, the baby has begun to walk and talk, and knows that the whole world awaits. Sometimes, clinging to a chair, waving a spoon in a fist, the one year old will throw back its head and crow in sheer delight...