Word: glorious
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...envy him his ease but you know that in a few minutes he's gonna have to be moving on, finding someplace sheltered to shoot up that pale orange goo that'll do him for awhile more. And you think about Timothy Leary's hyperbole about the glorious things that happen to the brain cells when you take drugs and you think about this man that you will never see again because of the not-so-glorious things that drugs are doing to his cells and you think about acquaintances who brag at parties that they shoot smack every weekend...
...everyone sooner or later. In a few weeks the seniors will hang up their pads and take their places on the sidelines with Tim. And without a doubt the strongest and most fond memories they will retain will not be about any exploits on the field, or about some glorious moment, but about their teammates, about the outrageous things said and done, about the bullshittting and jiving and, of course, about the glorious routine...
...probably the most cynical of networks, regularly brings us something called The Wide World of Sports, which includes Demolition Derby. I cannot follow the rules of Demolition Derby. The idea seems to be to drive automobiles into each other until all but one are broken. The apostle of this glorious venture, Roone Arledge, has lately been elevated to direct ABC news...
...anything but the same the following day in New Jersey, which was most likely Harvard's most glorious afternoon of the spring. It wasn't so much that the squad swept a hard-hitting Princeton club to even its EIBL record at 2-2, but how they flawlessly displayed their dominance...
Energy in limitless supply from a universally available fuel. Energy created by a process that is relatively harmless to the environment and leaves behind no byproduct that can be converted into dangerous weapons. To a world facing the long, frigid night of fuel shortages, it seems like a glorious dream. That dream may be somewhat closer to reality than most people realize. In laboratories in the U.S., the Soviet Union, Western Europe and Japan, scientists are involved in a spirited competition to become the first to achieve one of the most important-and difficult-goals ever sought...