Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lynwood Thomas Rowe, still called Schoolboy by everyone, is pitching with his head instead of his arm. He no longer has the blazing fast ball that made him Detroit's delight 13 years ago. He has been sent down to the minor leagues twice. Now, with six victories and no defeats, he is one of 1947's two leading pitchers (the other: Warren Spahn of the Boston Braves...
...Proto-Feminist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906). But Gertrude did not hesitate to drag in characters of other eras-notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson). Another, born of her delight with G.I.s, was called Jo the Loiterer. Hapless Andrew Johnson turned up, groaning throughout, "It's cold weather . . . wherever I am." And John Adams sniffed, "Do not pity me; I am an Adams and not pitiable...
...tower heralded the election victory of the Socialist-Communist bloc over landowners and shopkeepers. The Christian Democrats virtually threw the election away when their provincial leader, coming to a rally of the local party, swung into Roviano driving a long, sleek Alfa Romeo. Roviano's children, squealing with delight, climbed all over the strange vehicle, but the citizenry hooted its driver out of town. In Anticoli, a pretty young girl who was chief Communist organizer practically swung the election singlehanded when she shouted in a village square speech: "The landowners call us barbarians. They say we are Zulus...
...million dollar "diplomatic offensive." The Committee's implied faith that the 27 nations hitherto reached by the broadcasts and booklets of the OIC will continue to believe in America's aims through a process of visceral induction is one that the Soviet propagandists will greet with bulging squeals of delight...
...News. Near Trondheim, Norway, Vassilij Rambovski, a Russian soldier, who had been holed up since escaping from a Nazi prison in 1944, learned to his delight that the war was over...