Word: glad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joining him. It's a puzzle, isn't it? I don't know why grown men care so deeply about something that neither kills, nor starves, nor maims, nor even scratches in our world of woe. I don't know why we care so much, but I'm mighty glad that...
...chapter called "Off-Beat Essays" contains an appeal to Rice from Gregg Shapiro, who begins, "I'm glad you gave this opportunity to express a personal concern. Since I'm going off to college next year, my mom says that I've got to get rid of my pet elephant. She's tired of him tracking mud into the house, and he's getting too big for the bathtub. Also, now that he's been fired from the car wash, he's not bringing in any money. But Renaldo and I have become quite attached, so I was wondering...
...post-debate interviews, Dukakisdescribed his increasingly aggressive postureduring the hour as self-defense. "You can't justsit there and take it." Kariotis, far morepositive to the press than on the podium,commented that he was glad of the publicity forhis views, and that he did not consider himself anegative campaigner...
Such comments have a tinge of self-interest: the British, West German and Japanese governments have all signed up to participate in Star Wars research. But European leaders like West Germany's Helmut Kohl have other reasons to be glad that the final package was rejected. Kohl and his advisers were surprised by the sweeping nature of the proposals that, almost at a stroke, would have changed the military and nuclear balance of Western Europe. In private, they were frankly relieved that they still had time to look at the fine print of the offers rather than waking...
...suspected that the volleyball program wasn't good," Forman says. "But I'm glad that I came to Harvard, because the challenge is building a strong program...