Word: gleeful
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...wall he couldn't deny, a fact he couldn't dismiss, a world he couldn't fully control. We wonder no more. Bush's signature second-term domestic agenda--Social Security reform--died a pitiless, lingering death in 2005, as the public simply refused to buy it. His gleeful opening of the fiscal spigot--the biggest increase in public spending since F.D.R.--got deficit hawks squawking enough to force the first tiny potential cuts in pork, if nowhere near enough to control the looming debt. The Republican congressional guru, Tom DeLay, discovered that gerrymandering districts in Texas could lead...
...speak the truth. The party chairman, Howard Dean, was not inaccurate when he said, "The idea that we are going to win this war ... is just plain wrong." If Dean had added the word militarily, most generals would agree with him. The trouble is, Dean-as always-seemed downright gleeful about the bad news. He seemed to be rooting for defeat. More subtle but no less feckless is the curious case of John Kerry, who has been calling for the withdrawal of 20,000 American troops as soon as the Iraqi elections are completed on Dec. 15. He has said...
...glance over Saturday’s plain-clothed audience confirmed that there was no “again” about it for many people in attendance. This production will mostly appeal to those who like their gleeful pan-sexuality without a side of good-natured sexual harassment and prefer to get home before...
...started around 11 p.m., when a couple of shirtless guys sprinted down a Southside street banging on a kitchen pot, oblivious to the chill rain of a late-October Chicago night. Within minutes local TV networks had interrupted their usual programming and the entire city was erupting in a gleeful frenzy of fireworks, honking car horns and footloose street celebration as Chicagoans by the thousands poured out of bars and basement rec rooms to celebrate their White Sox's World Series championship sweep over the Astros...
...Ultimately, the punch process brings out the worst in everyone involved—punches desperate for acceptance, snide insiders gossiping about dating infidelities, and gleeful critics seizing on any opportunity to condemn the clubs. And after the punch process is over, those who did not get in can bitterly rage against the institution while those who did sit smugly satisfied, confirmed in their sense of superiority...