Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the press was banned from the hotel and its grounds, several former hostages and members of their families walked up to reporters and TV crews, who stood behind barricades (yellow, of course). Most of the former hostages wanted only to express delight at being home. Kathryn Koob, accompanied by Elizabeth Ann Swift, said that the homecoming was "like having a bath in love." Added Swift: "We're all just walking around with silly grins on our faces." Jesse Lopez of Globe, Ariz., confided that his son James, a Marine sergeant, was "his old crazy self," repeatedly cracking jokes...
With lots of blusher but no shame, the peacock profession of modeling gives face and body to our covetous dreams, then mocks us as we press our noses against the window glass. What unimaginable delight made the pretty lady swirl and smile as the photographer snapped her picture? What season of debauchery brought the sulky thrust to this beauty's lower lip? At what groveling serf does the fine young lord in the Ferrari scowl with such contempt? Nothing; none; at no one; these glossy apparitions are as hollow as soap bubbles. The photographer has frozen moments that never were...
...imagine the delight of the administration if all student protests involved nothing more controversial than a desire to read books into the dawn hours. But one set of issues will not wither away for Harvard or for Bok: the quality of life for minority students here. Since Bok spoke on race relations and minority issues at Commencement last spring, a series of unsettling incidents has occurred...
...contrast, Weiner testified that when Glicklich first came to UHS, she seemed emotionally stable and capable of handling the mental strain of her graduate courses. "Gena was engrossed in her studies. She expressed delight at being at Harvard and returning for her degree," Weiner said yesterday...
...then. Except for a few snippets, none of these letters has been printed before in English. In his introduction, Phelps, a model translator in all respects, has one further surprise. Thousands of Colette's other letters remain hidden in vaults and boxes, waiting to charm and delight a whole new generation...