Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Florence by Glenn Andres, John M. Hunisak and A. Richard Turner (Abbeville; $385). The cradle of the Renaissance in glorious color and reverential grandeur -- and at more than 25 lbs. the lap breaker of the season. There are no crowds of tourists to block the view and no shadowy churches to obscure...
...first half of the performance ended with the Flanders and Swann song "The Hippopotamus," with the audience singing along on the chorus of "Mud, mud, glorious...
...could be the rust factor. Usually, Harvard gets beached in the Whale in mid-January, right after a lengthy exam layoff. This year, Yale already had a scrimmage under its belt. Harvard was playing its season opener, its first competitive game since that glorious day in St. Paul...
Nimrud's glory ended abruptly in 612 B.C., when the Assyrians, badly overextended, were taken by surprise by the combined armies of the Medes, the Babylonians and the Scythians. Nimrud was overrun. The palace caught fire, and its ceilings collapsed. Over time, the Tigris changed course, and the glorious ziggurat was reduced to a formless mound...
...marched about the room, soothing himself by recalling last winter's glorious match in Minnesota, and the autumn duel in New Haven two years before that...