Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the trip, Reagan took obvious delight in his return to the campaign trail. "As long as I can cross the Potomac River and get out here with real people once in a while," he declared in Montgomery, "I'll keep the faith." Dusting off lines that he used on the stump in 1976 and 1980, he referred to the U.S. as "the last best hope of man on earth," and recounted the evils of Big Government as if he were still the outsider challenging the federal system. In Nashville he bristled at charges that he is reactionary, insisting...
...most radical elements among the rebels." Before long, Borge's men killed one business leader, arrested others, and sent mobs to attack the newspaper La Prensa. Christian concludes: In Nicaragua the American media went on a "guilt trip." The story that reporters told- with a mixture of delight and guilt- was the ending of an era in which the U.S. had once again been proved wrong. . . "Intrigued by the decline and fall of Anastasio Somoza, they could not see the coming of Tomás Borge...
...bivouac in the Sistine Chapel and take idle target practice at the ceiling. But excellence is essentially invulnerable. It carries the prestige of the infinite with it, an ancestral resemblance to the ideal. It is ecstatic. For an irrevocable moment, it gives the mind what Melville called "top-gallant delight...
Leprechauns' delight...
...those in San Diego who love a play, prompting them to build a new, far better theater. When the new Old Globe opened last month, they could see just how well their $6.5 million had been spent. Both the theater and the company please the eye and delight the mind...