Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting enough talent to cover the weak parts of the book and music. He made good use of his few really good cast members, but there were always too many people involved on stage for the efforts of a few to keep the whole show bouncing. Nevertheless, those who delight in Gilbert and Sullivan will enjoy most of The Pirates of Penzance, while the less addicted will find it less than enjoyable...
Tolling Bells. In much of the world Macmillan's decision was greeted with hope and delight. "At least and at last, negotiations that can mean something are in prospect," declared London's News Chronicle. From Dublin, Irish Premier Eamon de Valera sent Makarios a history of Eire's fight for independence, accompanied by a note describing the book as a gift "from one who understands and sympathizes." In Cyprus itself church bells tolled triumphantly, spelling out "Makarios" in an old Greek ringing code, and as the news spread from balcony to balcony, crowds poured into the streets...
...land, now occupied by houses, small truck gardens and undeveloped brush land, lies in the heart of Sarnia's famed "chemical valley," surrounded by Canada's biggest complex of petrochemical industries. The new owners plan to divide the land into industrial sites. To the delight of Sarnia city officials, the formerly tax-free property will now go on the tax books to help support the city's overstrained municipal services...
Professor von Blanckenhagen's attitude toward the classics clearly reflects his cultural background. "I hope that the atmosphere of Harvard will continue to produce classically educated gentlemen of leisure who will not be concerned with money or being men of affairs, but who read the classics for delight, and form a background absolutely necessary for a living university." Anything but a snob, he seems to mean this more as a scholar than as a gentleman...
...article of barter than a bale of hay. The owners' case for the reserve clause is that it prevents wealthy owners from monopolizing all the best talent and thereby ruining the game as well as the gate. In 1922, and again in 1953, the Supreme Court, to the delight of the owners, ruled that baseball is a sport, not a business, and hence does not come under the federal antitrust laws. Last week the Supreme Court turned about...