Word: glees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girls dressed in whit and blue framed the orchestra. The fifth movement started with P.A.L.S. singing "ding, dong, ding, dong." The Tanglewood chorus answered with wide smiles and German verse. One couldn't tell if their smiles were the stages smiles that performers have to wear or genuine glee at hearing the younger kids perform. They hadn't looked too lively on their way in, but their performance got across the joy in the piece they sang...
West and DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, seated like acolytes beside and behind the author, grinned with the audience at her unexpected but graceful bravado. Perhaps their glee stemmed in part from how effectively her comments deflated the near-pomposity with which they had begun the evening. Gates went so far in introducing, West to christen him "a true citizen of the Republic of Letters," a bold pronouncement for anyone to make when the queen of said Republic sits a few feet away...
...when I feel responsible for half of the population which I have done so much to liberate? Because of my utmost sincerity, I think that if I show some awkwardness, I need understanding rather than insults, which too many sectors of the American press are pouring on me with glee. MADAME NGO DINH NHU Saigon...
...family of the man who died in the restraining chair, is less of an Arpaio critic than you might guess. Get tough on crime? Fine with him. Why should inmates have cigarettes, coffee and skin magazines? The problem with Arpaio, the lawyer says, is that by publicly expressing glee over the suffering of inmates, "you're saying to your employees that they have a license to brutalize...
...school year passed without much incident except a floppy drive failure. My life was full of computer glee: file-sharing, paper-writing, Duke Nukem playing glee...