Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orders brought delight to beautiful downtown Burbank, Lockheed's headquarters, and to Airbus Industrie's offices in cities across Europe. At Lockheed, which almost went bankrupt a few years ago, partly because of long production delays and lagging sales of the TriStar, happy executives called the Pan Am order for a dozen planes, plus an option for 14 more in the mid-1980s, the "order of the century." Johnson's Bakery, near Lockheed's offices, whipped up a cake with an icing decoration of a high-flying TriStar. Nora Winant, secretary to Richard Taylor, Lockheed...
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...splendid spectacle of Sleeping Beauty is the well-wrought setting, the dancing must sustain the mood of enchantment. In Sleeping Beauty this is an unusually tricky business, because little of the ensemble choreography is inherently interesting. The delight of such an old-fashioned approach as Sleeping Beauty's must arise from its sense of harmony and proportion; anything that blurs the clean multiplicity of geometric form betrays either conceptual incoherence, or simply a sloppy...
Those who have made an ascent -whether to the top of the Matterhorn or to the less rarefied heights of a 1,000-ft. peak in their nearest state park-are likely to agree with Jerome's paeans to the joys of topography. "Wonder and delight await, up there," he says. So does "elbowroom for the soul." Even those who have never left sea level will enjoy the au thor's lofty musings. Jerome points out that a range like the Himalayas is still growing (Everest may be more than a foot harder to climb in a hundred...
...Neutron Bomb," defending the most recent piece of Strangelovian paraphernalia. The editorial stated that the neutron bomb's "modest blast and intense but circumscribed and short-lived radiation make it particularly effective against advancing tanks and armies." The cigar-chomping military brass must be dancing a jig of delight, detecting more support for their new toy. Meanwhile, most folks are sorely disappointed: at least another year before the Pentagon alchemists conjure up the Doomsday Machine. Now let's see...how many grams of uranium does it take to wipe out 50,000 human beings...