Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving through the crowd, the white-haired, chunky, effervescent lawyer works as hard as a campaign politician. A crunching squeeze of the arm for one man, a glad-handshake for the next, hugs for all the wives. Then, with his back-country Florida drawl, he exhorts his fellow attorneys-this time about the need to weed out incompetent practitioners perhaps, even by requiring periodic retesting of lawyers. It is all said with an ingratiating charm and leavened with warming phrases about law as the "major bulwark between man and his government." At the finish, there is a loud ovation...
Most of the noncoms and privates were reservists and glad to be done with war. "We may have to come back," said an Iraqi-born elevator technician from Jaffa who had been serving as a mortarman, "but in the meantime I want to live a little." Added a Tel Aviv housepainter: "We can manage out here at the front all right, but we have problems at home. My business has gone to hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when...
...really can't win this award unless you have a great club behind you," Park said yesterday. "It was really a nice affair, and I was glad to see the kids get some recognition," he said...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is the only play on this whole list that I know is good, because it's the only one I've seen. Aren't you glad you read The Crimson's listings? At the Charles Playhouse in Boston...
...several years appear to have run alarmingly far below consumption. Proved reserves have dwindled-according to the industry. The shortage has also affected air quality. Natural gas is the most environmentally acceptable of fuels, since it releases few pollutants when burned. Many fume-filled East Coast cities would be glad to pay a premium for natural gas-if only they could...