Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same kind of analysis can, of course, be applied to the motives of judges, surgeons, soldiers and presidential candidates, to say nothing of journalists. In fact, police work also attracts large numbers of men who sincerely want to serve the public, delight in chores as disparate as solving murders and delivering babies, and have all the moral courage requisite to making that awesome police decision-to kill or not to kill.* In California, one study showed that 50% of one police force (Sausalito) had the same psychological profile as doctors and ministers. If most cops were not highly motivated...
...after Saturday's victory over Holy Cross, Yovvy was almost loquacious with his delight. This win was a tribute to some spectacular individual performances, certainly, especially those of George Lalich and Pete Varney, but above all it was a tribute to a gritty team and to its coach...
...said one hat wearer. "No," replied another. "It is more like being tied with the same umbilical cord." "Do you feel you have to participate?" one hat wearer asked his neighbor last week. "Yes," she replied. "Otherwise I'll lose my hat." "Lose my hat!" repeated Byars with delight. "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard...
...delight of 300 enthusiastic onlookers, Master Charles W. Dunn yesterday stood in the Quincy House courtyard, waved the gold-headed cane of former Harvard President Josiah Quincy in the air three times, and proclaimed the House's deliverance "from the malevolence of all banshees, bogles, and kindred evil spirits...
...incidental. The film's most heart-stopping sequence, in fact, is the hero's climb to the roof of the orphanage to retrieve a lost ball. This is only one of the many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children playing a game evoke the whole mysterious mosaic of human diversity. The interior decoration of an old thief's brand-new flat hits...