Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detailed to warm up the crowd before Fidel himself appeared. "None of our prisoners are tortured," he cried. "But when necessary, we execute them." The crowd of peasants and union members, released from work for the day and trucked in from outlying provinces for the show, screamed its delight. At the appearance of Fidel himself, who landed in a helicopter carrying a new Belgian rifle (one of 24,000 he recently bought for his troops), the mob chanted for eight solid minutes...
Even though it involves more work than most Departments, the School each year attracts about twice as many applicants as it can admit. In recent years, from 70 to 130 sophomores have applied for the 50 available places. To the delight of the college admissions office, the School attracts to Princeton intelligent students, interested in public affairs who might otherwise have gone, say, to Harvard (which has no similar undergraduate program...
...Alexander's yacht is a loft. dinghy moored at his Cape Cod summer home. While Morgan traveled in private railway cars, Alexander gets about in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon or a Corvette. While Morgan's hobby was spending millions for old masters. Alexander's chief delight is to get out in the country, climb onto a tractor to harrow or mow a field. He likes to polish his own shoes, buys his suits off the rack at Tripler...
First and foremost the Harvard Band is music. It can delight a Sym phony Hall audience or make the home stands rise with cheers to the strains of "Harvardiana." No band plays music quite as well. Whether it's the right choice of medleys, the special balance of the brasses, or something quite technical doesn't really matter. The Harvard Band has that something which makes the fight songs enthusiastic, the marches sharp, and the show tunes lively...
...arresting snapshot of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Eliot, in which the wrinkled old (71) poet stands with his arms looped fondly but awkwardly around the neck of his wholesome young (32) wife, his face caught in a quizzical expression, half doubt and half delight-a portrait of J. Alfred Prufrock, who has dared to eat a peach...