Word: gladden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispirited to find cars, not deer, at deer crossings; and when his thoughts drift to Howard Johnson's-a direction that Frazier's corpus rarely takes -they are wistful. "If only Howard Johnson's would serve liverwurst sandwiches!" On the other hand, suitable equations gladden his heart. "Tell the truth now-don't you think Pat Brown and California deserve each other...
Having been soundly trounced by 3 min. 46 sec. in the first race, the Aussies came out for the second match in the kind of day to gladden any Sydney sailor's heart. The balmy 15-knot breeze had be come a tearing, 25-knot northwest wind; heavy swells rolled across the green Atlantic, and off to the horizon spray-laden whitecaps filled the scene. It was Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful white-hulled sloop fly in home waters off Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful...
...With surprising ease, Bally Ache sprinted to a four-length victory in the 84th Preakness at Baltimore's Pimlico to gladden the hearts of the syndicate that had bought him for $1,250,000 a fortnight ago. Kentucky Derby Winner Venetian Way floundered home fifth...
...week to gladden the hardest-hearted politician; from coast to coast the trombones blasted out, the bunting rippled, the political speakers roared. Thousands of chickens made the supreme sacrifice, turned up as patties and croquettes on thousands of tables at Lincoln Day dinners and Democratic rallies. In Washington, at a wingding sponsored by the D.C. League of Republican Women Voters, Dick and Pat Nixon listened without a wince to a chorus of college girls who shrilly serenaded them with a new song, to the tune of Clementine...