Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High above the winter resort of Garmisch Partenkirchen, in the lee of Germany's towering Zugspitze, champion bobsledders of eight nations were in gleeful spirits last week. After two days of unseasonably mild weather, the icy 1936 Olympic bobsled course had frozen hard and fast over its tortuous, 1,800-yard length. Switzerland's Felix Endrich, clumping around the take-off point, had particular reason to be happy: he had won the world championship two-man bobsled title earlier in the week, and his bride of less than a month was sitting in the stands rooting...
...George Templeton Strong, a New York boy of 15, began a diary. In its first few years the diary recorded a gleeful account of student pranks at Columbia, a burlesque of its president's sermon on "The Moral Turpitude of Snow-Balling," a solemn discovery that Shelley's poetry was "rather humbuggical." By the time of Strong's death in 1875, the diary, with a massive total of 4.500,000 words, had become a solid record of 19th century life, a treasure house of Americana...
...clothing, smiled amiably at everybody they met, carefully imitated their host's actions. They were more amused than awed by civilization, finding telephones and streetcars especially delightful. When Medeiros' phone rang, they would pick it up, listen a while, then let loose peals of gleeful laughter. They spent hours leaning out the window, watching Rio's aged, dark-green streetcars clatter...
Some of the most shocking news about Red China is deliberately spread and documented by the Chinese Reds themselves. The Communist papers are at their gleeful best in reporting mass killings of "counter-revolutionaries." The present propaganda line attempts to scare peasants into submission, and so the Red journalist dwells on the gory details with all the morbid gusto of a tabloid reporter on a chorus girl murder...
...keeps them smoking; it spurs its horses vigorously over a well-traveled, well-Technicolored course. The picture rises a bit above the level of the standard western by dint of some dabs of humor and Actor Cochran's performance as a dull-witted second villain who takes a gleeful pride in his dastardly work...