Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are not quite inexplicable. Horse breeding, once the sport of kings and nobles, is now the delight of international moguls and financial princes. Well-heeled foreigners, particularly the Arabs, like lavish-spending Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktun (who bought the record-breaking filly at Saratoga), have brought piles of new money into the enterprise. In addition, Thoroughbreds are tax sheltered and relatively portable collectibles whose value has appreciated not only more than inflation but well beyond most other investments. The Dow Jones index rose a bare 7% in the past 20 years. Prices at sales like Keeneland...
...birth of a healthy, wanted baby anywhere in the world is always cause for rejoicing. The maudlin delight that the new royal baby in England was male is sickening. England's greatest decades have always been in the reigns of its Queens...
Irrepressible merchants set up makeshift stands to hawk books, camping lanterns and underwear in front of shuttered stores. Shoppers discovered to their delight that abundant supplies of fresh fruit and vegetables had filtered through a leaky Israeli blockade posted along the Green Line that divides the capital. In the surrounding hills, Israeli soldiers played Ping Pong or strummed guitars to pass the idle hours. As a silver kite bobbed brightly in a stiff breeze, an Israeli officer sighed in amazement: "This is a surrealistic...
...between the potato-farming Yastrzemskis and the Skoniecznys on the maternal side, there were enough men and boys to field a Polish-American town baseball team that was something to sneeze at. Carl Sr. was the shortstop, Carl Jr. the second baseman. At 15, young Yaz experienced the unusual delight of joining his father in hitting back-to-back home runs. Now his own son Mike, 20, is a senior at Florida State and a major league prospect...
Chafing under inflation and budgetary setbacks, NASA officials took delight in Reagan's presence at Columbia's return from space. Though Reagan has shown only a lukewarm interest in space so far, he is the first President to watch a space landing since Richard Nixon viewed the splashdown of the Apollo 11 astronauts on their return from the moon in 1969. But Reagan in his speech at Edwards disappointed space officials by failing to order up a fifth $1 billion orbiter, or support what NASA sees as its next logical step in space: the construction of a permanent...