Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lear's army had been backed up against the Red River it had so dashingly crossed. Its flanks had been turned, many of its bridges to safety destroyed, its Armored Force's gasoline supplies captured in an old-fashioned cavalry raid. It was, so soldiers said, glad to start another scrap this week (with all last week's mistakes and losses canceled) to get its reputation back...
...blue-eyed Clarence Addison Dykstra marched up the Hill last week, smiling and waving to undergraduates. In his spacious, comfortable office, he stretched his long legs and relaxed. He was glad to be back as University of Wisconsin's president. But Dr. Dykstra, home in Madison from a year in Washington (Selective Service Director, Defense Mediator), knew better than most college presidents that he would find no isolation on his campus. In a nation under arms, colleges had new things to do, new facts to face...
Sara Roosevelt, 86, was always glad to be back in the old house overlooking the Hudson, whose mistress she had been for 61 years. There she tended the roses and the delphiniums, watched the hundred-year-old trees tremble in the sun. There she grew too old to live any longer. In her bright room that looked out through the shimmering foliage toward the Albany Post Road, with her son beside her, this week Sara Delano, wife of James Roosevelt, quietly died...
...Antonito, Conductor Henry Willis, who had spent almost a quarter of a century on the run, climbed carefully down. No sentimentalist, Conductor Willis exclaimed, " I'm glad to get off that danged rattletrap...
...noises increased - louder percussions, trimmed with human screams, wardens' and firefighters' shouts, fire-engine clangs, the crackle of flames. Finally the pandemonium faded; the pale people were led out. They said that the thing was terrifying, but they were glad to have been through...