Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum was built in the Louvre's Pavillon de Marsan, which was first finished in 1666, burned during the Paris Commune of 1871 and left largely unoccupied since its restoration was completed in 1905. When Decorator Jacques Grange first inspected the premises in 1982, he found himself inside a glorious attic in which hundreds of pigeons flew free under a glass rooftop supported by a metal framework. Grange and Architect Daniel Kahane kept practically everything but the birds. They added oak for the floors, stone for stairs and gallery walls, spending nearly $6 million to achieve an easy, inviting elegance...
...Patriots thrilled us for 19 weeks this season. Two weeks ago they rode a tidal wave of hoopla into the Superdome, and emerged with the most inglorious defeat in the history of the nation's most glorious sporting event...
...causes of the events in the morning's media footage. When Reagan spoke to the nation, he refered to the day's human tragedy and canonized new heroes. One simply couldn't come out and say it: our rocket had blown up. The nation was emasculated, bewildered, dumbstruck as glorious pride turned to impotence in a blinding flash...
...traditional alliance with "oppressors" to greater concern for the poor. Says he: "There are 10,000 more coincidences between Christianity and Communism than there could be with capitalism." Liberation theology, he exults, is "a re-encounter of Christianity with its roots, with its most beautiful, heroic and most glorious history." He also calls it "one of the most fundamental happenings that have occurred in our epoch...
...with the noblest ideals that we coughed in your face not yet three inches ago. Did we say noble? Noble doesn't quite capture it. Honorable, glorious, mensch-like. Now we're getting there. But you get the idea...