Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gleeful Engineers had never played five on three basketball before and, since the Crimson had lost three other men on fouls, it looked like the last couple of minutes would be more fun than the hapless scientists had been having...
...whether business bigness, particularly conglomerate bigness, is bad. Business men around the U.S. complain that the ITT affair has hurt them, too, because it has blackened the image of business in general and given fresh fuel to its increasingly vocal critics. In Latin America, the ITT case has given gleeful leftists the opportunity to aim their attacks on imperialistic Yanqui business against an identifiable company rather than a fuzzy abstraction...
...backing to bring the Republican National Convention to San Diego (TIME, March 13). As the second week of tense testimony unfolded, Republican officials were still on the defensive. The Administration had requested the hearings, hoping to dispel quickly any whiff of a deal. Thus far it had failed, and gleeful Democrats were only too happy to prolong the agony in an election year...
...played all right. Considered juju (good luck) by the Biafrans, he rode around in a white Mercedes with a death's-head pennant fluttering from its hood. Though a capable military commander, Steiner was regarded by observers as something between a borderline psychopath and a gleeful good Samaritan. To command attention from his troops, he would fire submachine-gun bursts into the ground at their feet...
This year we can't let that matter. With Nixon's encouragement and the Harvard Administration's gleeful acquiescence, the get-tough-on-campus policy has arrived. It's unlikely that school will be called off again-and we should never again get hung up on that battle. Even if students weren't a political liability, Harvard would not adopt a Princeton Plan and send us off door-to-door. We could go the route of the Japanese students and prepare for perennial pitched battles, and if the nation follows the Scranton Commission's advice and replaces the National Guard...