Word: glads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there was the ever present pilot fish, the press, always asking how it felt, what you thought. Crazy. How could you tell them? When asked, "Are you glad to be home?" how could you curb your tongue from blurting out as your brain wanted to: "Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?" For four months, until the replacements came, you had been part of the multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon, you and 4,000 other Marines and sailors. The Navy brought you back on five ships by way of Key West, where you were to have a fleetingly...
Szafar of the Russian Research Center concurs, saying. "This kind of demonstration shows Walesa's not forgotten, even if Polish affairs are out of the headlines--it produces a feeling of solidarity with the Polish workers' movement. I'm very glad Harvard did decide to extend the invitation, no matter what the outcome...
...energy, has enabled Marshall to become one of two women partners (out of 112) at the giant firm of Baker & Botts. Texas Judge William Blanton remembers when Marshall and another woman lawyer were known disparagingly around the courthouse as "Laverne and Shirley." Now, he says, "I'm sure glad I'm not a young male lawyer having to contend with...
...quotes a letter from Forger Arthur Sutton, whom Hamilton had helped to expose, causing Sutton to plead guilty to fraud. "I have always had the greatest respect for you," wrote Sutton, who crafted the signatures of famous figures from Sitting Bull to Richard Nixon and Marilyn Monroe. "I am glad I have been caught and can promise I will never forge any autographs ever again." Admitted Hamilton, in a public aside to Sutton: "It is the forgeries and fakes that give piquancy and excitement to the chase. Without them, philography would be a pretty dull pursuit...
...chart showing how Werner's salary and bonuses had gone from about $160,000 a year to nearly $525,000 at the same time that GAF's stock dropped from $42 to $10. Said GAP Stockholder Ben Alderson before the annual meeting started: "I'm glad to see someone like Heyman upset the canoe. I've had stock for ten years, and I'm not at all satisfied." After a chaotic, three-hour session that was interrupted by arguments over rules of order, Werner, fearful that he was losing to Heyman, postponed the deadline...