Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...networks, in a decision that must delight sitcom fans everywhere, have refused. Stated reason: it is too early for TV politicking...
From one minute to the next, One Mo' Time! is a hot, wild, ribald and rousing delight...
...their cellophane wrappers, was kept to accommodate women who decided to spend the night. Some of them, it was said, were seduced by a sad and spurious tale of impotence that had resisted the best ministrations of international medicine. Their competitive instincts aroused, they invariably discovered to their delight that they could succeed where science had failed...
...department has been waiting for years for the two to get the award. Glashow himself cagily suggest that he had more than an inkling of its imminent arrival. The first overt hint came last year during a trip he took to a conference abroad. He tells the story with delight: "I was cornered by one of those gray-haired Swedish physicists. I was armed with information about charm, all the information he could have wanted. It was my baby and I wanted to talk about it. But he didn't. He started to grill me about my work of some...
...make money, as much as he could. His first patent was on a device for automatically and speedily recording votes in Congress and state legislatures; but because such a machine was seen as a threat to the filibuster, the legislators did not want it. Edison later took delight in recalling what he had resolved then and there: "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success." For once, there is no reason to doubt his word...