Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugees ? was ac complished so quickly. There was little surprise when Prime Minister Gandhi announced to both houses of Parliament early last week that India would become the first government to recognize Bangladesh. Still, members thumped their desks, cheered loudly and jumped in the aisles to express their delight. "The valiant struggle of the people of Bangladesh in the face of tremendous odds has opened a new chapter of heroism in the history of freedom movements," Mrs. Gandhi said. "The whole world is now aware that [Bangladesh] reflects the will of an overwhelming majority of the people, which...
...play's delight lies in the parodies, its unavoidable weakness in the occasional dips into ho-hum solemnity. Playwright George Herman's academician alter-ego elbows aside the comic dramatist, forcing a meaning which the humorist could carry less intrusively. Herman's over-seriousness trips us the cast as well. The two straight scenes suffer from awkward blocking and sags in tempo while the comic sections skip around similar problems. What's worse, the dialogue smothers itself under a dead weight of philosophizing. Fortunately, Herman's didactic compulsion interfere only infrequently, and the comedy is allowed to bounce ahead...
Much to the crowd's delight, the Quakers pecked away at Harvard's lead until a goal at 7:35 by Penn's second line center. Bernard LeFrancois, Knotted the score. The two earlier scores that helped the Penn rally were pumped in by first line center and co-captain. Bob Read, and Bud Daigle, the Quakers third line center...
...months ago. "When the intellectuals were protesting, 150,000 workers marched down Wall Street to support me," he said. "I want you to know that I appreciate that." But after ending his remarks with a plea for labor support, Nixon received little applause. Then, to the audience's delight, Meany quipped: "We will now proceed with Act II." Nixon, for his part, cancelled plans to spend the week end at his Key Biscayne home, and returned to Washington...
...between the papers tightened, BAD strengthened its news coverage. Both papers did hard-hitting pieces on a Boston fire that took eight lives last April, and for weeks published details about negligence in the building industry; finally the city dailies picked up the trail. The BAD staff took particular delight in the fact that their story on the FBI investigation of Daniel Ellsberg was picked up by the Washington Post, syndicated, and eventually appeared in the Boston Globe...