Word: glorious
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...more sophisticated than most architecture of the day. Most of it was English, since America itself was mostly English. Just as American dissident patriots in the 1770s proudly claimed to be rebelling against George III in the name of the "true" British values of the Magna Carta and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, so American craftsmen in the 18th and early 19th century appealed to British norms of design; there was not much talk about "American" culture, and to most people the idea would not have made sense...
After one last glorious, hammy program, Garrison Keillor shuts down his unique, beloved radio show, A Prairie Home Companion...
...talk. Flying high above the planet, the crew of Hermes can see signs of a highly advanced society. But attempts to communicate are met first with silence and then with hostility; unmanned probes carrying messages of peace are attacked. The earthmen begin to wonder whether the planners of their glorious mission "had invested billions and lifted mountains in order to find a civilization gone berserk...
...week in a national broadcast, Chun announced that because of the pressing business of preparing for the Olympics, there will be no constitutional revision. This means that a military-backed candidate will almost certainly maintain control of the presidency. Chun explained that the Olympics and the country's "new glorious era of democracy" would be marred by constitutional debates that "split public opinion and waste national energies...
...glorious day," said Harvard Coach John Wentzell, whose team had missed eight early-season games because of rain. "The results weren't as glorious as we hoped...