Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regard to the parking problem itself, Charles W. Greenough, commissioner of the M.D.C., said that the commission could not make a detailed study unless it were asked to do so by the University. He remarked that the M.D.C. would be glad to discuss the question with the Administration if it were asked...
...Jargon. "I am glad to be in the glorious capital of the great Soviet Union," said Gomulka. "Nothing is more important than our fraternal and friendly relations." Then, looking past the microphones, he let his thin smile fade and spoke with deadly earnestness: "The most lasting foundation for such relations are the Leninist principles of equality of rights of small and great nations...
...very glad and thankful," said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, to bring "heartening news" to a House of Commons that had been hearing bad news all week. His news: the end of the Mau Mau war. Britain's dirtiest and most tedious war was over, after four years in which 10,505 Mau Mau terrorists were killed, at the price of 1,168 casualties among native and British forces, and close to 3,000 civilians killed or wounded...
Certain backsliders, would think to dissuade us from our inexorable course by arguing that other sects are already established in the West, doing the Good Work. They say that there are already enough missionaries out there in the wilderness. They speak of the good appearances and glad manifestations of Pomona, of Stanford, of Sewanee, Kenyon, and Black Mountain. But brethren, it is plain that these sects do not have the true light, for Providence has not done well by them and they have fallen by the wayside among tares. If we sent good seed and good sowers out to them...
...moment, Eden seemed to have weathered the worst. The impatient were glad that Eden had done something at last; the embarrassed were glad that he had stopped doing it. Most Britons were at least delighted to see Nasser taken down a peg. Attending the Lord Mayor's banquet in the Guildhall at week's end, Eden was applauded by crowds on the sidewalk, applauded again when the waiting dignitaries broke precedent to cheer him and Lady Eden as they entered on a flourish of trumpets. In pubs and farms, the reaction of many a normally loyal Labor voter...