Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world, and at night it glowed with the fires of 2 million aspirations. Visitors to Grand Central Station, where the trains were out of sight and the zodiac was on the ceiling, could get information on any subject whatsoever -- and they did, 167,000 times a year. The glorious profligacy of the place was astounding: "Why," remarked one astonished observer, "the garbage thrown away in this city every day -- every day -- would feed the whole of Europe for a week...
Those activities had all been solitary, however, and this time my exultation was shared. Being one of many suddenly felt glorious, not at all mundane. I realized that I had missed out during all those years in the backfield, waiting for passes that never came but that I though I had never really wanted anyway...
Read form back to front, the Harvard hockey team's season is glorious: start with two losses, finish with 15 straight wins...
...didn't have enough to go on but because he had so much." Before the semifinal game against Memphis State, McLain says he did a quarter-gram of coke in the bathroom of his hotel. The true attitude of the smiling backcourtman, the beautiful dreamer of all the glorious press dispatches, came down to this: "I just wanted the season to be over." He says, "Now I wish Coach Mass had tested me then, or got me some help, or something...
...Metropolitan Opera, Director Franco Zeffirelli stages a Turandot that is a monument to glorious -- or is it wretched? -- excess...