Word: glorious
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...paradox is that East Germany's 40th birthday party should have been a glorious moment for the 77-year-old Honecker. Largely because of his grimly orthodox leadership, "Honi" could boast of giving the German Democratic Republic the strongest economy, the finest industry and one of the best-fed, best-housed and best-educated populations in the East bloc. It was the world's most successful -- or least unsuccessful -- example of Marxist government...
EVERYONE experiences a few infamous "firsts" at Harvard. The first walk to the Quad. The first time lotteried out of a Core course. That first glorious mouthful of venerable vegetables...
...great place for a powwow -- but a superpower rendezvous? This week's meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze takes place not in Washington or New York City but Wyoming's remote Grand Teton National Park, a glorious setting and a logistical nightmare. At a modern-day campsite near Jackson Hole, advance men have hauled in satellite dishes, encryption machines, secure telephones, simultaneous-translation systems, crates of computers, hundreds of pounds of barbecue and a gift box of hand-tooled cowboy boots...
...issue devoted most of its space to the "glorious decade" of the 1980s. Everything came out fine, except for Tom Kertes' piece on basketball...
Another revealing glimpse into Montana's vivid past is on display at the glorious Deer Lodge Valley in the northern Rockies, ten miles west of the continental divide. The Grant-Kohrs Ranch, started by Canadian fur trader Johnny Grant in 1862, became the center of open-range cattle operations owned by German immigrant Conrad Kohrs. The ranch ran herds on more than 10 million acres in four states and Alberta, an area nearly the size of Switzerland. "Grant was the last mountain man, and Kohrs the first cattle baron," says Lyndel Meikle, a park ranger who has spent twelve years...