Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a beautiful new country if you stand under a large apple tree and look up to the blue sky through the white flowers. . . . I suppose I went to it very young before I could really remember and that is why I have such a wild delight in cowslips and apple blossom-they always give me the same strange feeling of trying to remember, as if I had known them in a former world...
...Moscow hospital bed, Russia's Dionysian cinema genius Sergei Eisenstein rolled and roared with joy. The cause of his delight was the medical opinion that he was dead. He had died, according to doctors, during his celebration of the completion of Part II of his three-part chef-d'oeuvre, Ivan the Terrible. Dancing with a young girl had been too much for his heart and he had collapsed...
Bowles's great delight in government may be a bad thing for the postwar U.S., as the National Association of Manufacturers has been charging (in advertisements prepared by Benton & Bowles, the firm which Bowles helped found). It may be a good thing, as a vast majority of the nation's plain people believe. At all events, it must be reckoned with...
...London Evening News quoted the retiring Quartermaster General's delight at the civilian kit issued him on demobilization-"a suit, a raincoat, two shirts, one pair of socks, two collars, a tie and a pair of shoes." In clothes-short Britain, such an outfit would take more than a year's ration points. When hundreds of other ex-soldiers angrily asked why General Riddell-Webster got two shirts, the British War Office called it "a packing error" and sent an officer to retrieve the second shirt...
...group of irate citizens banded together into a Committee for the Preservation of Greenwich-keep UNO out. Other citizens formed a smaller Greenwich Citizens Committee-bring UNO in. The Stamford Hills Association screamed like a porker that sees the knife. Some 10,000 other Stamford citizens signed petitions of delight...