Word: glorious
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...test of the opera's stage worthiness. At Eszterháza, Haydn could call on a large cast of silent extras to provide plenty of spectacle, and the theater's sophisticated stage machinery-which could transform settings from a pleasant garden to an enchanted wood or a glorious hall-was expected to carry a good deal of the dramatic load...
...touched up the PT 109 story to increase his heroism, and pocketed a Pulitzer Prize (through his father's influence) for a book he did not actually write. A reader of second-rate adventure books, he became the darling of the intellectual and had them singing hosannas to the glorious power of the presidency. Finally, he got us into Vietnam with gusto, saw it as the perfect testing ground for his beloved counter-insurgency techniques...
Although the images of the finale are less than glorious, most of the scenes from the Icewomen's season were nothing short of amazing. A squad in only its fourth year of varsity status, which had never risen above a 7-12 record, complied a mark of 15-6, finished second in the Ivy tournament and won its first-ever Beanpot. After getting off to a solid (6-3 by reading period), the Crimson dropped two close contests just before exams, then went on a tear in February, mowing down nine straight opponents before bowing to the Tigers...
...Beanpot used to count in the ECAC standings, and in '78 the Great Blizzard delayed it until March. The Crimson capitalized on that unique opportunity by losing the Beanpot final and any chance at the playoffs in one, glorious, 7-1 tragedy at the hands of B.U. To celebrate, the teams staged a beach-clearing brawl late in the third period, George and Jackie Hughes and Murray Dea against Jack O'Callahan, Daryl McLeod and Dave Silk in the tag-team feature. Harvard lost that...
...August of 1973 in California was glorious. Each morning, seduced from official papers, I sat on the veranda behind my office at the Western White House in San Clemente and watched as the sun burned the fog off the ocean. Occasionally I saw a slight, stoop-shouldered figure amble along the edge of the cliff beyond which lay only the beach and the Pacific. In that tranquil setting Richard Nixon was enduring the long final torment of his political career. Outside of the seclusion of San Clemente, the country buzzed with speculation about whether he would survive as President...