Word: enjoys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gears. In ten speeches delivered during a cyclonic week, he hymned his domestic accomplishments as the best ever achieved "by any Administration at any time in all the history of America." His arms windmilling and his voice rising, he told labor leaders: "I sometimes won der why we Americans enjoy punishing ourselves so much with our own criticism. This is a pretty good land. I am not saying you never had it so good. But that is a fact, isn't it?" Lady Bird made a similar point, telling a B'nai B'rith luncheon...
...until U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, 45, strolled up to a group of American pacifists, who had stopped long enough to wet their whistles before flying on to Hanoi. At the sight of Sullivan, U.C.L.A. Professor Franz Schurmann, 41, reelingly announced: "I'm a subversive." "I hope you enjoy your adolescent behavior," snapped the ambassador. "Say 'adolescent' again and I'll fight you!" roared Schurmann and put up his fists. It got no further, of course, as embassy aides and Novelist Mary McCarthy, a member of Schumann's group, stepped between the two men. Next...
...warmth of the reception astounds Borges. He believes the audience is making some terrible mistake. He tells himself he must have tricked them, and hopes they won't find it out soon. But he's willing to enjoy the applause (writers receive no such recognition in Argentina, he explains), and turned around three times on the way off the stage to respond with grateful abbreviated bows. He tells himself that these people have come to see what a blind foreign poet is like. Borges won't admit (and won't believe) that he's one of the great figures...
Princeton went undefeated through its remaining Ivy League games, while Harvard settled down to enjoy its usual late-season slump...
...coach Moriarity settled back to watch his sure victory, and two thousand screeming sons of Eli were set to enjoy the same. Then Brooks pulled another surprise. Up to the block stepped junior backstroker John Pringle. Pringle had just finished winning the 200-yard backstroke and had not swum the breaststroke all season. But he was one of Harvard's superstars and the crowd tensed...