Word: glads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young. Feeling youthful still and strangely restive, she develops a yen for a neighbor boy, who returns her affectionate remarks with the demand that she buy him a motor scooter. This infatuation comes to nothing, and everyone with a claim on her generosity seems relieved: "The relatives were glad that Durga had at last come around and accepted her lot as a widow...
...these days, at Harvard at least, the graduate students are largely quietist. A few Law School students have marched on the president's office and rallied, but these events are self-contained, and not, apparently, intended to mobilize undergraduates. The college students who come rushing through Harvard, glad at first to be here and glad at the end to be leaving, are in effect leaderless...
After negotiations between the State Department and the Kremlin, the U.S.S.R. last week returned Weymouth to Little Diomede in a military helicopter. Nearly all of the island's 154 inhabitants--mostly Eskimos --turned out to see Weymouth's return. Asked if he was glad to be back in the U.S., the Wanderer replied, "No. Sorry." And what did he plan to do now? "Keep on walking." Weymouth's mother had paid for an airline ticket for her son to return to San Francisco, but at Anchorage airport, he traded it in for a ticket to Seattle...
...Luries were glad to see us and said they hadn't had visitors for about three months. Over dinner, we talked about nuclear arms, Central America, housing in the USSR. Like other refuseniks they were not hopeful about their future. Since 1979, the Soviet Union has clamped down on Jewish emigration. The 1979 emigration high of 51,320 fell...
...landing," Peterson admitted that he had been concerned in the last minutes of flight because "you wonder if you have your brakes and your hydraulic system." He continued, "Even though it shows on the instruments, you never know. That's why people clapped when we touched down. They were glad, as we were, to be on the ground." Among the 118 survivors, none needed to be told how lucky they were that the explosion had not damaged any of the plane's vital systems. If the bomb had gone off ten minutes earlier, while the craft was still flying...