Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopeful attempt by area track coaches interested in increasing fan interest in the sport, the meet made a rather inauspicious beginning last spring. The meet not only was run rather poorly, but it was almost a complete secret to the public. As a result, what could have been a glorious track opener was a drab afternoon...
Last week the Chinese Communists exulted: Defector Wei was in their hands and talking their language. Peking Radio broadcast a letter from Wei to his "colleagues and friends'' on Formosa, praising Peking's glorious achievements and denouncing Chiang Kaishek. Wrote Wei: "You have all seen that during the Korean war the powerful military might of our motherland forced the U.S. to a ceasefire. Taiwan [Formosa] will eventually be liberated." At last Communist report, Wei and his wife, seeing the sights of Canton, were "very lighthearted and thrilled...
...Commonwealth was framed in the old meeting house, and the General Court convened there, until a small-pox epidemic drove the austere legislators away. During the Revolution a provincial congress appeared in the church, and Lafayette himself smiled benignly from the Commencement platform in 1824. But the glorious days of the meeting house were about to end. A schism between Unitarians and Trinitarians resulted in the abandonment of the church by both parties...
...been dreaming out loud; he had not won so much as a centimo in the lottery. Nobody seemed to know just how the phony story of his great luck had originated, but Spain's press had strong suspicions that Dominguín was ravenous for the sort of glorious acclaim he once got by cleanly killing bulls...
...with cute comment and dabs at it with flashy, cosmetical touches of music. But no matter how hard he tries, he cannot quite make Mother Nature look like what he thinks the public wants: a Hollywood glamour girl. "Disney has a perverse way," sighs one observer, "of finding glorious pearls and then using them for marbles...