Word: delights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Moliere's M. Jourdain, who in middle age found to his delight that he had been speaking prose all his life, a huge number of Americans are raptly if belatedly discovering that they are scions. Everyone-not just Anthony Dupuy Crustworthy IV-has ancestors and, with time, patience and luck, can trace a pedigree and track his progenitors back to Minsk or Marseille, the Isle of Wjght or at least Ellis Island...
...dominance of the tall man was not always apparent, as diminutive guard Ellen Seidler brought the giant Morgan back to earth with a slap-stuff that sent the Radcliffe bench reeling with delight...
...nervous and excitable; at one point in her interviews she became so wound up that she had to take sleeping pills before going to bed, then she overdosed herself and collapsed on the floor. At another point, she suddenly rose and started playing billiards with two aides, squealing with delight when she did well. Such exercise, she explained, was necessary to keep her legs from swelling...
Faced with executive ennui, Eagleson had to work with desperate speed. If the Barons folded, at least ten players would be thrown out of work and certain games would be canceled. No disaster. Other troubled hockey teams, like the Pittsburgh Penguins, might also be seduced toward bankruptcy. No delight. Finally and critically, the deferred-income contract-basis of six-figure salaries in all sports-would at once become suspect. Who could sign a long-term deal with a team that might disappear in the short term...
...their forms filled out. H&R Block, Inc., the nation's largest such service, expects a big increase in business this year over last. The U.S. Tax Court will also be kept busy for years interpreting the 1976 law's provisions. Here, for dismay or delight, are some of the major changes, beginning with those likely to affect the most people...