Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few unfortunate experiences in EIBL play, the varsity nine was very glad to return to Greater Boston League pitching yesterday. It celebrated by trouncing an inept Brandeis team, 9 to 1, as Bob Kessler went all the way for Crimson...
Pointing out that he had no further personal ambition, he raised his right hand high, and cried in an echo of the flowing Barkley style: "I'm glad to sit in the back row. I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty-"* Then, with the roar of applause and cheers from the 1,200 students ringing through the hall, Alben William Barkley, 78, slumped to the stage, dead of a heart attack...
Looking back now, I am glad that I did what I did and that I did not succeed to the Presidency in 1945. It took 10 or 15 years before the Democratic and Republican parties adopted the program I stood for in the early '40s-a program that was based on peace and the welfare of the world and which was criticized as "milk for Hottentots," "TVA's on the Danube," and "Globaloney...
...Says Correspondent Russell Warren Howe, New York correspondent for the London Sunday Times: "If Mr. Faulkner no longer agrees with the more Dixiecratic of his statements I, for one, am very glad, but that is what he said...
...February Khrushchev and Bulganin reluctantly agreed to this tight little schedule, but changed their minds after seeing how successful pudgy Georgy Malenkov was on his recent glad-hand tour of Britain. Last week from Moscow the official Russian news agency Tass angrily expressed dissatisfaction: "The Soviet leaders lay great significance on their forthcoming talks with leaders of the British Government . . . But at the same time they would greatly like to meet the ordinary people working in factories and other enterprises . . . Apparently there are some forces in Britain who do not wish to permit wider contacts between Soviet leaders...