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...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...
...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...
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...