Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's basketball team bowed to Duke last night, 89-86, at Briggs Athletic Center in a contest that is best described as nothing less than a glorious defeat...
...then, the Russians will probably wear the same sealskin furs and resemble happy brown bears again. Olympic Games open and close with parades. The first is always glorious, and the last is usually a little sad. At U.S. sports events, the national anthem is commonly played and generally ignored. But every four years people strain to hear it, and not only does the melody seem improved, but the meaning is clearer in the Alpine air. It is fun to sing to the mountaintops. ?By Tom Callahan. Reported by Jamie Murphy/New York and B.J. Phillips with the U.S. figure-skating...
...experiences are carefully assayed, even those that come in the Franks' pitiable Amsterdam refuge behind a wall, temporarily safe from the Nazis. Occasionally she succumbs to depression, and a line concentrates the tragedy of her people: "To be interrupted just as you are thinking of a glorious future!" Yet Anne's mind is too agile and her imagination too febrile for enduring self-pity...
...meet proved stirring for the sole reason that Harvard won 11 events, but also anticlimactic because the Eagles were never closer than the nine points they lost to the Crimson as the harriers swept the 35-lb weight context the very first event of what wins to be the glorious day for a Harvard spend that had lost, 78 1/2-58 1/2, to Army just a week earlier...
THESE ARE the "savage people" to whose heritage May finally gives in. As she becomes more and more obsessed with getting the better of Quayle, May comes to eschew the profit motive for the visceral thrill of sheer, pure, glorious revenge. She studies him, even goes to a lecture. Appalled at the near-manic, hushed crowd anticipating his appearance on stage...