Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planeload. The Communists would be happy to stick around. Happiest of all were the Red Chinese, who were gleeful to find themselves back at a bargaining table-and propaganda forum-with the civilized world. The chosen delegate was chunky, Paris-educated Marshal Chen Yi, 60, who has been Foreign Minister for three years and who, as a veteran of the 1927 Nanchang uprising and commander of the rearguard in Mao Tse-tung's Long March in 1934, is one of Chinese Communism's elder statesmen. Predictably, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was at hand at the airport...
Mother Goose (Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Arch without being cute, this trio skips through the old rhymes like verbal jump ropes. In gleeful self-amazement, Actor Ritchard triple-tongues Peter Piper's pickled peppers ("I didn't break down, you see"). Hershy Kay's musical punctuation is pert and pertinent, unfailingly delights, never intrudes...
...fascinated by your Camelot story. It brought back gleeful memories of being bound in chain armor to play King Arthur himself (because I had the deepest voice in the class of girls) in Sir Henry Irving's version of the play with the same name...
...frequently Jack went over to the command post himself to look at the returns. When the news of the big Connecticut victory came over the wires. Jack uttered his favorite exclamation. "Fantastic!"', jumped for joy and (though he rarely smokes) lit a big black cigar, while his gleeful sister Eunice warbled When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
...stock, came $25,000; the Ford Foundation pledged $40,000. With $112,000 to go, Greenburg got another philanthropic windfall of $55,000. Keeping it secret, he called a mass meeting of businessmen to spring his surprise. "I'll take 5% of what's left," cried a gleeful brewer. In ten minutes channel 9 had a full till...