Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish to express my great delight in reading about Construction Worker Tom Dowd's "good buck"-$94,000 a year [Sept. 181. Here is a story of a doer, a worker, a builder who can work skillfully with his hands if need be. Never mind the comments like sky-high paychecks, outrageous, grossly inflated, needless expense...
...real difficulty is the objective, stopping the trade efficiently. People are not as interested in this result as they are in the battle, the puritanical delight of catching bad guys and addicts and punishing them...
...Navajo, a blanket was a second skin. He wore it, slept under it and hung it across the door of his hogan, both as a defense against wind and rain and as an object of delight. Its geometric patterns, rarely repeated, expressed the individuality of the creator and also, according to how it was draped, that of the wearer. Cumulatively, in a strange way, the blankets tell a whole history of the tribe and of its conflicts with the white...
...turned the utility into a vast conglomerate named Tenneco that does $2.8 billion worth of business annually and reaches into land development, farm machinery, auto parts and shipbuilding. Now his hand-picked successor, Nelson ("Dick") Freeman, is pulling just the kind of surprise about-face that used to delight Symonds' Houston cronies. In an age of power shortages, Tenneco is turning back to supplying energy on a grand scale...
Even when they stay in their parks, the macaques have become rather disagreeable. Half tame, half wild, they mingle with park visitors, snarl at them, and delight in running away with food packages left on benches. "Once having tasted the amenities of human society," observes Kunihiko Shirai, "they feel they must continue to have them. no matter what...