Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hike back (I was up most of the previous night), I remember to stop off to see the tutor who is giving the Dunster House course. I want to ask him if I must attend the first meeting. (It conflicts with another of my classes.) He is glad to see me, since he has already winnowed his list down to 18 names. After interviewing the owners of these names, he will cut the list down to 13. He wants to interview me. After a few incoherent replies to his questions, I ask if I can return later after getting some...
...Egypt, there was little the Israelis could do but sit back and wait?and hope. The government's television channels, after announcing news of Nasser's death, followed with an apt quote from Proverbs 24:17: "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles." The Cabinet, hastily summoned, ordered Israeli front-line troops on alert until events were sorted out. Foreign Minister Abba Eban pointedly offered Nasser's potential successor a nonbelligerent atmosphere in which to operate. With the 90-day cease-fire between his country and Egypt due to expire...
...coach Munro is glad the competition will be much tougher today. "Amherst played a very disorganized game," he said, "and we could never get our attack going. Every time we got the ball settled down, they'd kick the damn thing a mile...
...what would seem to be a basic environmental logic, the nation's older and larger cities should be glad to have their population thin out somewhat. A degree of dispersion, if intelligently planned, might mitigate some of the urban discomforts born of congestion. But the logic of cities can be as odd as the impulse that prompts men to swarm together in the first place...
...popular fiction track, is better known as author of the four-handkerchief bestseller, Love Story. In Games, audiences need only bring Kleenex. This time around, Segal has adapted Hugh Atkinson's novel of hate and added a naive undertone of "There-I-said-it-and-I'm-glad...