Word: exult
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...Commandant Mark Clark, at his advance headquarters near Munsan, signed the truce documents brought to him from Panmunjom. He said: "I cannot find it in me to exult in this hour...
...delta into Viet Minh country. More important than the strategic gain was the fillip to Vietnamese morale and French pride in showing what they could do with the right weapons. There were still vast areas to be retaken from the well-organized Communist guerrillas, but De Lattre could exult: "From now on, the initiative is mine...
After four years of fat competitive salaries, the players had less reason to exult. A few days before the merger, Notre Dame's great end, Leon Hart, observed that he would be willing to play professional football for $25,000 a season. At week's end, Arthur McBride, chief owner of the A.A.C.'s high-stepping Cleveland Browns put the new picture in focus: "Some . . . players who got $10,000 and $12,000 this year will be playing for half that-or less-next season...
...Reddest region, and most of its 500 people voted Communist at the last election. Don Giorgio is a staunch antiCommunist, but the whole village loved him. Last spring, when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves, after a suitable interlude of grief, to exult over the prospect that Don Giorgio would now become their priest. But after a competitive examination the Archbishop of Bologna decided otherwise, gave the post to one Don Luciano Massa. Don Giorgio sadly left the village...
There are connoisseurs who go to hockey games just to exult over a weaving solo dash or delight in a well-coordinated scoring play, but rank-&-file hockey fans would still rather hear a player thud against the boards, or see a good fist fight...