Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, an attempt may be made to win a compromise on an amount lower than $290 million. Many airline executives will not be unhappy if the plan dies. Their industry is sagging and the prospect of carrying deficit-producing passengers in more expensive planes does not fill them with delight...
Last week, much to the delight of the Taosenos, the Senate voted 70 to 12 to give 48,000 acres back to the tribe. Held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, the land will be preserved as wilderness and used by the Indians mainly for religious ceremonies, hunting and maintaining livestock...
...Latton Industries appeared in the central square in Athens. When Helen Vlachos discontinued publication of her newspaper in protest of the coup, American ambassador Phillips Talbot tried to persuade her to resume publication. C. L. Sulzgerger, chief foreign editor of the New York Times , could scarcely conceal his delight at having that rabble-rousing Andreas Papandreou silenced. The so-called embargo on heavy arms turned out to be completely bogus when it was found out that the Pentagon was selling surplus heavy arms to Greece. In any case, the "embargo" was lifted this summer for "strategic" reasons. When the Commission...
...flat beige and gold of costume, complexion, hair-proud wigs. Against them all, Dandin's shaggy authenticity strikes out like a bear baited by spaniels. When at last Dandin finds the house empty at night and locks out his wife, the creaking stock situation leaps up with delight while Dandin exults...
...Edmund, Turkish Delight...