Word: glorious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Something was happening last week in Washington. There was more open, glorious debate on more subjects than anyone could remember in recent years. The old mess of democracy had returned -and that looked all to the good...
...stunt, a daredevil adventure that no man who was concerned about his safety and his future should have attempted. But Charles Lindbergh's 1927 pioneering solo flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine plane that cruised at less than 100 m.p.h. was surely the most glorious stunt of the century-one of those pristinely pure but magnificently eloquent gestures that awaken people everywhere to life's boundless potential. For most of his life Lindbergh was looked upon as an argonaut of the air age, a Ulysses from Minnesota. When he died of cancer of the lymphatic system...
Harvard has embraced these men and others of similar achievement in a manner few other schools could. They are the bastard heroes born out of holy wedlock, the illegitimate heirs to our future memories of the glorious days past...
...last minute, said a source close to one defendant, "Nixon screwed us," and, properly and wisely, nothing was done for his former aides and agents. There was also speculation that Nixon could have pardoned himself, but Press Secretary terHorst reported that Nixon had taken no such in glorious, secret action before leaving office. Doubtless he had probably not even considered...
Having a less regal type in the White House, the American public will perhaps become less dependent on the ukase of the President, not through cynicism but through the recognition of the reality that was always there. This would be a glorious thing. The new Administration's promised partnership with Congress, sorely needed and long overdue, could be an exalting experience for all Americans...