Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy pronouncements, which constituted an implicit warning to the Soviets. "Any nation," said Mondale, "which seeks to weaken or isolate you in world affairs assumes a stance counter to American interests." At a Peking news conference, Mondale said that Communist Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng had accepted "with delight" an invitation from President Carter to visit the U.S. some time next year...
...truly a delight to see a pretty face on your cover, not another one of our nation's problems...
...night cage holding bottle and babe. At first, Kuif did her best to hide her keen curiosity; in the chimp world, no one is supposed to approach a newborn without its mother's consent. After two weeks, Roosje was placed inside Kuifs cage, and to the scientists' delight, Kuif immediately cuddled her new charge, took a bottle, then awkwardly but lovingly began to feed Roosje. Remarkably, too, Kuif soon was producing milk herself, her mammary glands stimulated by her new baby...
...Prospero's "savage and deformed slave" Caliban, the subhuman offspring of a witch and a devil. It is incorrect to regard Ariel and Caliban as polarities. They are undeniably contrasted; but they also share a number of traits, such as distaste for physical labor, a yearning for freedom, a delight in pranks, a love of nature, an appreciation of music, and a fear of their master. Ariel has some coarse language and Caliban some ethereal lines...
...would change names almost as often as his socks. The original Nathan Birnbaum became Harry Pierce, who became Willy Williams, who became Willie Delight. Willie Delight? "Yah," says George. "There was a guy by that name who had 2,000 cards printed up that said, 'Willie Delight, in Vaudeville.' But then he went into some other business, and I bought the cards for a dollar. When they were used up, I changed my name again." He was George Burns when he met and, in 1926, married Gracie Allen, an Irish Catholic comedienne from San Francisco...