Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glorious week, London had seemed to be the capital of the world. After the big day was past, thousands tramped the coronation route, through tattered paper arches and bedraggled festoons, while dustmen recovered tons of paper and empty bottles...
...strongly seaward. And so, apparently, have readers' tastes, with such books as The Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm, he again pits hard men against...
...even against common sense, Albert forged ahead, shoving with both hands and sometimes with his cheek to get his small bulb out where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to be great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone of pure disinterestedness...
...while, Social Relations was known as a glorious gut, and if attracted many "free-ride boys". The Department has been struggling to cut down this excess enrollment and now reports that the "free riders" are a thing of the past...
...signing an order banning all demonstrations in Belfast today. Remembering some slight disturbances last March, when a few of the boys worked over some shops and a police station, the Ulster government is wary of a new gathering. And perhaps they're right. It is a glorious sight when the lads of the Sinn Fein go swinging down the road, keeping time to the tap of their shillelaghs on the cobblestones; but feelings do run high...