Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision was made in the face of a mouth-watering fact: because of world shortages Canada could probably get any price she wanted, within reason, for her wheat. Canada could at least get the going U.S. price of $1.70 a bushel ($1.90 in Canadian money), which would delight wheatgrowers in a bad crop year...
Alexander Pope was a cantankerous little (4 ft., 6 in.) poet who took a special delight in puncturing bores, dullards and windbags, with his sharpened, precisely aimed verses. Periodically, during the 200 years since his lifetime, the reading public has rediscovered Pope. To mark the bicentennial of his death, a new five-volume set of his works has been projected (Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope-Methuen & Co., Ltd., London). Some of Pope's packed and pointed lines seem apt as ever in the autumn...
...chopped beef, there was enough; of vegetables, a slight deficiency. Soon the pungent odors brought grins of delight to 60 swarthy faces...
Innkeeper's Delight. Composer Vejvoda, 43 and balding, now runs a pleasant plaster inn on the banks of the Vltava. In his prosperity, he owns two 20-piece bands...
...with noticeable lack of fervor: "Very efficient." Ambassador Hurley would not think of letting the Communist leader ride in the limousine provided by the Generalissimo. He hustled Mao into his own black Cadillac. As they drove off, the high-spirited Oklahoma diplomat, whose Choctaw war whoops are the delight of Asia, yelled to the astonished crowd: "Olive oil! Olive...