Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold no brief for the 1957 car models described in your Feb. 18 Letters column, but on behalf of my fellow citizens of this state, I resent Mrs. McKinley's remarks. The road runner or chaparral cock is a cheerful bird, a curious delight to the traveler, an unassuming and, indeed, pedestrian fellow-the antithesis of the long, loud, brassy products designed for conspicuous consumption by the free-wheeling denizens of the freeways...
...opposition groups was the Prachathipat (Democratic) Party headed by thin, reedy-voiced ex-Premier Nai Khuang Aphaiwong, who upheld the Pibul government's staunchly pro-Western foreign policy, but damned its corruption and authoritarianism. "We live under a government of gangsters," shrilled Nai Khuang, to the delight of thousands of assembled Bangkokians...
...first of New York's 25,000 longshoremen swarmed back to the piers last week, signaling an end to the walkout that had tied up the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Virginia for ten days, a hiring official summed up their delight that it was all over: "They were hysterical...
There is much in this play to delight the seeker after hidden meanings, for Aiken ignores neither symbols nor that interrelation of characters and events which suggests more than appears on the surface. The surgeon who bends over Arcularis as he lies on the operation table reappears as another passenger on the dream voyage. And this passenger is the owner of the chisel which Arcularis likens to a scalpel, and with which he tries in his sleep to break open the coffin in the ship's refrigeration room, the coffin which he comes to realize contains his own corpse. Other...
...bear it, we know everything. Wonderful, that moment, when the absolute zero invades the soul, but as if with the soul's permission: when you see, in a single instant, no matter whether it comes early or late, what a poor, blind, broken trifle of suffering and nonsense and delight a whole lifetime can be. And yet, would not have it otherwise. It's the moment of our absolution...