Word: euphoria
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...boneless to the table, where we cooked piece after piece on earthenware platters sprinkled with salt. We gorged ourselves on the deep, primordial flavor of beef as it was meant to be, full of days spent in the goodness of open fields. Somehow in the cholesterol-induced euphoria, my brain noted that the perfect steak seemed to be in the center rib section, aged for 90 days, of a 16-year-old Rubia Gallega...
...Sadat’s unexpected trip produced a wave of euphoria across Israel. Israeli diplomats scrambled to find Egyptian flags, a band that could play the Egyptian national anthem, and a way to show Sadat the Holy Land they had fought over. Israelis—Holocaust survivors, soldiers who had fought Egyptians only four years earlier, and a younger generation alike—welcomed Sadat with open arms. The Israeli daily Maariv printed a red banner headline in Arabic and Hebrew reading, “Welcome President Sadat.” Egyptian songs were played on the radio and Israelis...
...euphoria would not last, and Andrew was on hand to chronicle the junta's brutal crackdown. He was joined in Rangoon by our own James Nachtwey, the world's pre-eminent news photographer. If Andrew's story describes the ecstasy of the uprising and the agony of its failure, Nachtwey's haunting images capture Rangoon's somber mood as ordinary Burmese try to go back to their lives after the crackdown...
...lenders, convinced that inflation and depression were no longer serious threats--and that the chairman would bail them out of any trouble they stumbled into--became heedless of risk. This has added a hard-to-master new responsibility to the job description of Fed chairman: restrainer of financial-market euphoria. But again, it's the product of success...
...sophomore in high school, and this article captured perfectly my hopes for this country and its citizens. I was in a state of euphoria as I read about some of the programs I had visited during a Civicweek in the Bronx, N.Y., co-sponsored by the Civic Education Project and Northwestern University. I fell in love with City Year, Teach for America and the Harlem Children's Zone during that amazing, eye-opening week. I hope that our national leaders will integrate service opportunities into our government and thus boost national pride...