Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delight of my fellows, he began to push my chair out the back door--to little avail. Next he picked up my briefcase and said, "Come with me." As he was nearing the back of the room I called, "I'll sue you if you lose that." In despair he waddled off to fetch the Lieutenant...
Then, to the ironic delight of the depressed Sox fans, the public address announcer pleaded for the kids to clear the field, "or the Red Sox will forfeit." This with the score 9-2. But the sheep-like horde dispersed and the groundskeepers intimidated a few of the ringleaders. So everyone went home with the sorow of defeat a bit relieved...
...listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC. (His 1,000th broadcast was what provoked the Guardian's praising with faint damns.) Cooke, 59, takes obvious delight in confounding the usual cliches about the U.S., in praising what is denounced, in minimizing what's exaggerated, in try ing to persuade his audience to give up the "easy joys of righteous indignation."He is a master of the unexpected, whether it is defending Douglas MacArthur or Lyndon...
Aprille with his shoures sote has arrived, and the lusty Wife of Bath, the boozy Miller, the testy Reeve and the greedy Merchant are all getting happily sloshed once more, along with the jolly Host of the wayside Tabard Inn. To Londoners' delight, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales has been turned into a rollicking, raunchy musical comedy. The wonder is that nobody has ever tried to do the same thing before...
...varies by locale. In Los Angeles, for example, KNXT's Bill Keene claims that "you can call for fair weather every day of the year, and you'll be 92% accurate." In Florida, where weather is a vital concern to citrus growers as well as vacationers, who delight in hearing how their neighbors are freezing back home WTVT in Tampa airs 70 minutes of forecasts daily. On one occasion, WTVT interrupted Walter Cronkite's Evening News to show five water spouts forming in the bay. In Boston, Don Kent styles his program as a kind of electronic...