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Word: delighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September 1940 the Panzers had blitzed Denmark and Norway, the Low Countries and France. Adolf Hitler had capered in delight before the camera. Now he waited to caper again as the Luftwaffe battled across the Channel. In her darkest, grandest hour, Britain stood alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Five Septembers | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...estimated ten million read his syndicated newspaper column, A Daily Thought. At the invitation of women's and culture clubs, lyceums and Chautauqua, Phelps delivered some 10,000 cheery lectures to some five million delighted listeners. On the air for Swift's hams and the Heinz 57 varieties, he was the literate housewife's delight. To his equal glow for the great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Phelps | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

While the proprietors of the local apothecary shops specializing in liquid prescriptions tear their hair, the sandwich shop men rub their hands in delight, for many is the edible carried into Mower, Lionel, and Strauss, to stave off that gnawing hunger that comes...

Author: By Ens. R. D. semple, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...guffawed the Professor in the fluent style of prose which had made his treatises on relativity and the sixth dimension a delight to read, "I likes dis mode of--life." ("What phraseology," murmured La Flange; "Divine," shrieked Laverne...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

...first shell was far to the left of the target. The next bud of smoke was right in back of the white house. Kotin squealed with delight and snapped out his next order: "Fire H.E. [high explosive]. Repeat range. Fire when ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Taking of White House Hill | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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