Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some indeterminate point, perhaps when the number of U.S. troops reached between 100,000 and 125,000, a "Plimsoll line" would be reached: for every American soldier invested, a Vietnamese soldier would be lost. The war-weary Vietnamese, as the then ambassador saw it, would be only too glad to hand over the fighting to the Americans...
...Your lungs can no longer take a full breath, as though they were more than half blocked. Your legs are unsteady. Your pace falters. You stumble on the mossy ground, and trip on the fallen brushwood. Instead of being pleased to be making some headway, escaping perhaps, you are glad only of a halt when you can lean against a tree trunk and catch your breath...
Restic likes what he sees at Harvard. The players impress him with their enthusiasm; the Athletic Department suits him perfectly, he says. But mostly, he is glad to back at a college...
Would they? Would Harvard students be taken in by a grinning hypocrite who came glad-handing his way down to Lowell House to pacify the natives whenever they got restless? Some of Brewster's tunts seem so obvi...
...President, Miller, an expert on American religions who was himself an atheist, timidly asked if he could be buried from Memorial Church because of his lack of belief. Pusey, who viewed Miller as a prime source of his troubles, is said to have responded, "Perry, I'd be glad to bury you anywhere...