Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Florida caucuses, pulling 62 percent of the vote to Glenn's 28 percent and Bradley's 10 percent. National polls now show he has pulled ahead of the Ohio Senator, and campaign manager Howard Cosell exults. "We can almost taste it now, right, Dandy Don?" The candidate himself is gleeful at his upset. "Of my talents there can be no mirth/ I brought the Spaceman down to Earth," he declares...
...season to be joyful, and joy is out in full force in bookstores this year. The perennial favorite The Joy of Sex decks the book stalls, together with its gleeful companion volume, More Joy of Sex. Chaster readers may prefer Joy of Cheesecake, or Joy of Photography with its predictably titled sequel (you guessed it) More Joy of Photography. And could any kitchen be complete withoutJoy of Cooking, cookbook cum encyclopedia--America's answer to Larousse Gastronomique...
...fellow runners, however, remember him of certain other traits. One of these, according to McNulty, is the addition of "Reganisms" to the team's philosophy. One example of a Reganism comes when someone announces he is going to take a course pass/fail--that venerable Harvard option. Regan turns to the gleeful scholar-athlete and remarks. "Life is not pass/fail...
...swarmed over Capitol Hill to demand a balanced federal budget and lower interest rates. On June 12, 750,000 of the nation's well-educated middle class descended upon New York to urge an end to the nuclear arms race. And this summer, a much smaller but decidedly more gleeful throng of conservatives danced on the grave of the Equal Rights Amendment at a gala Washington bash...
...know, with blondes moving in and out of rooms. "Lee's ambivalence toward security and society crystallizes when Austin invites a movie producer. Saul Kimmer (Richard Grusin), to the house to talk business. Scoffing openly at Kimmer's lifestyle. Lee the dirty, ill-spoken, scowling failure babbles with gleeful sarcasm about his imaginary residence in Palm Springs, his love of gold, his familiarity with Hollywood's Bob Hope Drive. But when Kimmer indicates interest in Lee's idea for a Western, the misanthropic scoundrel becomes bell bent on scoring a success in the movie world...