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Word: delightfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good ol' American blues." As it turned out, Dizzy was not the only showstopper. Big Daddy Amin, 48, eccentric President of neighboring Uganda, helicoptered in, and hefting his 270 Ibs. with surprising agility, joined the Masai tribal dancers and Kenyatta for some high kicks, to the delight of the celebrating crowds. -"He was a little bit ahead of his time in believing that a President should set some time aside for sex." On this titillating note, Gossipmonger Earl Wilson proceeds in his forthcoming book Show Business Laid Bare to reveal a "dalliance" between President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1973 | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...length and breadth and height of you total up to quite a view, but to taste the true delight of you, I'd like to take A BITE...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Oh, Lampoon | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

...headline in France's satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé (The Chained Duck) was printed in big red type last week, and it read: WATERGATE au CANARD. To the delight of the editors, one of Le Canard's cartoonists, Andre Escaro, had stumbled on an attempt to install bugging devices in the paper's new offices. The result: a scoop that had the government embarrassedly denying any knowledge of the affair, opposition Deputies demanding explanations in the National Assembly-and a sale of 660,000 copies for Le Canard, 210,000 more than the usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bugging the Duck | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...comic scenes delight in visual as well as verbal madness. Heads pop wildly from behind a screen of evergreens during Malvolio's undoing and Sir Andrew Aguecheek mouthes Sir Toby Belch's speech simultaneously from the opposite end of the stage. Even the propmen are carried away, hamming it up as they wander in to change scenes...

Author: By Elizabeth Healy, | Title: Sin As Its Own Reward | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...obvious sense, Nixon's wrong, Sixty-one per cent of the electorate assured Nixon a welcome mat at the White House doorstep. But they didn't welcome Nixon to lie, rob, spy, fix judicial decisions to his heart's delight, or use his great and good position for medium to fair personal profits here and there. Not even a welcome mat at one's own home is a mandate for thieves to come and rob him blind; the people may have picked up Richard Nixon's option for the presidency, but they included no clauses in their second four-year...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Give the Guy a Job | 12/12/1973 | See Source »

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