Word: glads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...castle in the Italian Tyrol-Mary writes gracefully but modestly. Pound is the major figure in her book, and she willingly plays Cordelia to his Lear. Perhaps at times she adds too soft a shading to the fierce old face-who could begrudge him that? Who would not be glad to hear that he and Olga are still together in old age, "taking care of each other"? Who could not envy him the vision he rescued out of horror...
...view of the fact that both Mr. Goodwin and I published books exposing and condemning escalation in Viet Nam (Triumph or Tragedy: Reflections on Vietnam and The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy) at a time when Mr. Ellsberg was in there helping the war machine. I am glad that he has come over to our side, but his alleged scorn for those who saw the point long before he did seems singularly ungracious...
...heat the car and warm the breakfast coffee cake. The desert dawn is bright and clear; the sun backlights the Manzano Mountains to the east. The train climbs continually to the Continental Divide crossing at Gonzales. "Back in the days of hand-fired steam locomotives, we were real glad to get here," says Ray Derksen, acting train master at Gallup. Derksen points out a hotbox detector at trackside, an infrared gadget that spots defective wheel bearings; one installation can cost as much as $50,000, but a single derailment caused by a hot box can be much more expensive...
...ironic that while the Green Berets get applause for attending to the health of the poor in long-neglected parts of South Carolina, thousands of youths who would be glad to do this kind of work are given a choice only between Viet Nam and jail...
Samsonov felt ashamed to ask his men to stop for a rest, but perhaps out of concern for him they did so every hour, and sat on the ground. Kupchik was always there to deftly spread out the saddle blanket under him. He was glad to be able to stretch out and rest his aching legs...