Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delight to read the refreshing article on Reggie Jackson [June 3]. I am glad some light was cast on the humane side of an individual who is too often looked on as an overpaid hot dog. Reggie Jackson is a fine athlete who gives a booster shot to a game that seems to be losing its momentum...
...Dilemma. Amid all the delight over Kissinger's Middle East miracle, one group remained dourly uncertain. At Arab League headquarters in Cairo, 177 shirt-sleeved delegates of the Palestine National Council-a parliament of Palestinians hi exile-gathered to debate their next move. All the delegates also belong to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a conglomerate of six guerrilla organizations led by Yasser Arafat, which faces a dilemma: How can it continue to hold out against Israeli presence hi its homeland and at the same time withstand pressure from Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia to join the movement toward peace...
...citation: "Her joyous personality, glorious voice, and deep knowledge of music and drama bring delight to her audiences and distinction...
...sheer, giddy, lustful triumph, a day to wipe out memories of all the decades of defeat. Down Broad and Chestnut streets wound the motorcade last week while some 2 million zealots, nearly half the population of metropolitan Philadelphia, screamed with delight, threw confetti and fought with sweating cops to get close to their heroes. The Philadelphia Flyers had just won the Stanley Cup, symbol of supremacy in pro hockey, by destroying the Boston Bruins with un-Quakerlike ferocity, and the city had spontaneously taken Monday off to celebrate...
...been a cool and respected Finance Minister suddenly found himself carried on a wave of popular enthusiasm for the first time in his career. He responded with a warmth that had been rarely seen in public. His plunges into the crowd became a ritual. With almost disbelieving delight, he told a crowd in Nantes: 'At the beginning of this campaign, everyone thought it would be a predictable election with people voting the way they always did. But something happened that threw off the experts. There appeared a new popular current within our people around my candidacy...