Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the darkened spacecraft, the astronauts struggled to make the best of their dangerous predicament. While two slept fitfully in the unpowered and chilly command module, the third remained on watch "downstairs" in the lunar module. Ground controllers had at least one bit of cheering news. To the delight of scientists, the Saturn third-stage S-4B rocket (which itself had been aimed toward the moon after giving Apollo its final boost) had hit the lunar surface exactly as planned. Its impact created a reverberation that registered for four hours on the Apollo 12 Ocean of Storms seismometer. "Well...
...weary, stood with his fellow officers holding back the crowd while the traffic went through. The front line of protesters was shouting the old chant "1-2-3-4-we don't want your -- war"; one girl-she could not have been more than 15-was taking particular delight in shrieking the obscene adjective loudly at the cop. The word was hardly new, but her strangely misdirected rage was. It was surely...
...another large canvas Church painted the sunrise spreading redness over a lake like lava. Similarly painted out of the studio, the landscapes of the Hudson River School have a more peaceful tone. Nineteenth century artists saw their environment with wonder. They felt no alienation from their public whom they delight with colorful reflections. Fierce whims of nature are the most hostile forces depicted by the painter...
...countrymen shadowboxing is prototypically Basque, not only in physique but also in the delight he takes in exercising his remarkable strength. And in betting on it.* Stone lifting is a passion among the Basques, and as a youth Urtain never missed a chance to accept a wager. At the age of ten he won 25 pesetas for moving a 175-lb. stone from a pathway; at 14 he acquired a chicken by hefting a 300-lb. stone five straight times. He turned pro at 21 but soon ran out of competition, even though he gave his opponents ever larger handicaps...
...America's treatment of the Indian-will debate with Evergreen and Village Voice critic John Lahr. Lahr's recent biography, Notes On A Cowardly Lion, has made a camp hero of his father, Bert Lahr, and helped to cause the enormously-popular revival of Alice In Wonderland, to the delight of Bert Lahr fans everywhere. Kopit wrote and produced Oh Dad Poor Dad while still at Harvard, for which he won the Outer Circle award...