Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...autographs, chatted with Ace Driver Cale Yarborough-a folk hero in the South for his lead foot and light heart-and smilingly posed for photographs with Miss Cindy McDowell, Miss Southern 500. Suddenly a roar swept through the crowd. Jimmy Carter was emerging from a green Chrysler, grinning with delight, totally at ease in familiar surroundings. When Carter reached the stand, the Republican vice-presidential nominee edged toward the Democratic presidential nominee. Smiling, Carter edged away. Finally, Dole maneuvered himself into a position next to the Georgian. "Glad to see you," said Carter...
Search for Secrets. Belenko's delight was shared by members of an elite group of U.S. Air Force technicians, known as the Foreign Technology Division. The division normally must draw its conclusions about the capability of foreign military aircraft by such means as electronic eavesdropping and reports and pictures from agents. Now they have the chance to kick the tires and feel the rivets of a plane about which they had only fragmentary information...
...spot on the ticket appears to be increasingly within the grasp of a talented and tainted Texan who can outdazzle either Republican-and just possibly the Democratic ticket as well. The prospect of John Connally as a candidate for Vice President evokes emotions ranging from outright delight to abject despair, for few politicians engender less neutrality than Connally, the millionaire international lawyer, former Governor and Treasury Secretary whose assets and liabilities are formidable...
...fish drowning. ABC's Jim McKay, offering television's best-turned phrase of the week, described her as "swimming in an ocean of air." Reassured by Nadia's self-confidence, the sellout crowds (scalpers got $200 for $16 tickets) gasped not in apprehension but with delight and awe. Indeed, Nadia seemed as at home on the balance beam as Br'er Rabbit was in the brier patch-hopping about as if she were born there...
...strode down a floor aisle amid standing cheers, delegates and TV viewers watched a skillful, effective film, produced by Carter's media director Gerald Raffshoon, that traced the candidate's lonely fight for the nomination through 19 months to its triumphant finish. The film even took humorous delight in cartoonists' fascination with Carter's glistening toothy grin...