Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife were delighted. Together they had six daughters and one son from their previous marriages. Young Scott, who is bright and alert, quickly took his place as the family's younger brother. Delight turned to dismay when the Damaschkes tried to make certain that Scott would always be legally theirs. At least five court decisions in Michigan have established that a man who gets a divorce has a right to be treated as the father of any child born within nine months of the decree...
...Buhl said that the construction underway for the fourth house has a great deal to do with the girls' moving out. "Yesterday we got a new delight--a pile driver," she said. Noise and dust make girls unwilling to leave their windows open, yet the heat makes a closed room oppressive, she added...
McGuire does not mind talking about his closest call while flying to Biafra and one might even suspect that he takes a certain delight in it. Scheduled as a crew member on one flight, he transferred to an earlier one partly because of a quarrel with the other flight engineer, but mostly because of "a certain feeling; you get to be like a cat or some kind of an animal sometimes." The flight to which McGuire transferred was supposed to be a dangerous one. Its pilot, since given other duties, carried the sobriquet of "Mr. Magoo." It landed safely...
...general, however, Coach John Yovicsin could not have been wild with delight about the afternoon. Quarterback George Lalich, perhaps keeping the wraps on a little with Cornell scouts in the stands, was not impressive as a passer. He threw just eight times, completing four for 33 yards...
Even fewer would get such great delight from watching television cartoons ranging from 'George of the Jungle" to "Spider Man" the morning before a crucial away contest...