Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never heard an innocent man convicted of a crime say it was a glorious trial and an appeal conducted with exquisite fairness," he added...
...president of the Barons, pleaded the club's poverty, which was an honest plea as Mr. Swig stated it. The Barons were not drawing in their home arena near Cleveland. Mr. Swig, however, resides in San Francisco. There his family prospers in real estate and owns the glorious and expensive Fairmont Hotel...
...visit from three old political allies (all invisible, of course), asking him to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination against his own handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Taft has strayed from the "progressive" Rooseveltian principles he once propounded, stoking Teddy's competitive fires for one last, glorious battle. But the decision to abandon the comforts of private life and re-enter the "arena" does not come easily for Roosevelt, who resorts to a chronological review of his life's highlights that serves the purpose of the play far more than the needs of his deliberations...
...those who remember Biggs's glorious live broadcasts and recordings, who are familiar with his rectification of unauthentic performance practices, who studied under him at the Longy School, and who appreciate the cultural richness he brought to Cambridge and the Harvard community, the organist's sudden death last Thursday comes as saddening news. The Crimson extends sincere condolences to his family and friends...
...glorious performance also put in proper perspective the success of flash-in-the-pans like Bruce Lietzke, Tom Purtzer, former NCAA champ Curtis Strange, and Fuzzy Zoeller, who finished third at Inverrary. The latter's real name is Frank Urwin Zoeller but because of his poor penmanship, he took to signing his autograph F.U.Z. and the nickname stuck...