Word: glads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the problem of racism on the Harvard campus, many students and administrators say they are glad that the University has managed to avoid serious racial tension. "We're not perfect, but I am so happy that we are where we are instead of where other university campuses are," Bossert says...
...partial list of Things I Should Never Have Done That I Am Damn Glad I Did Anyway...
...sensationalism and the gaudy splendors of San Simeon, the firm seems intent on making a good corporate name for itself by sponsoring a seven-part PBS series called The Presidency and the Constitution. William Randolph Hearst Sr. would probably be pleased, but his father George would be even happier, glad that his son never took his advice...
...even survived his spectacular flameout after Watergate to become an elder statesman of the Republican Party. But his role in history remains enigmatic. An unlikelier politician would be hard to concoct: reserved, secretive, glowering, as awkward at backslapping and glad-handing as an android at a stag party. Yet he became the most durable public figure in postwar American life, five times a candidate for national office and four times a winner. How could this have happened? The question can be interpreted as friendly or hostile; anyone interested in the recent past must ask it and look for answers...
...glad developments, though, the happiest were in Milwaukee, where a couple of strangers named Tom Trebelhorn and Juan Nieves momentarily turned the American League East upside down (restoring Cleveland to the bottom). On a drizzling night in Baltimore, Nieves no-hit the Orioles last week for the Brewers' ninth victory in a season begun perfectly. "Games like this can make a grown man cry," said Trebelhorn, 39, the most anonymous skipper in the major leagues...