Word: happier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be happier than Gunnoe that Briggs Cage has finally undergone its much-needed renovation. He remembers practice in the dust-storm atmosphere of the old Briggs as "awful, gruesome, grisly." Lacrosse had the 9 p.m. practice slot for one month before heading south on its spring trip. Preseason's highlight was getting out on the Business School field the day before the trip...
According to Nigel Dempster's keyhole narrative, the figurehead has lived "a life unfulfilled." Whether she might have been happier as Prime Minister or nanny is unspecified; certainly she could have had a more gratifying Boswell. Dempster, 40, is a gossip columnist for the London Daily Mail, and throughout, if Margaret is the Disappointed Princess, he is the Old Pretender, stating the loftiest intentions, then betraying them with yet another innuendo...
...than jubilation; they congratulated me but without real passion. For we all were ill at ease. I knew that unless the agreement that Le Due Tho and I had worked out could be enforced, the structure of peace for Indochina was unlikely to last. I would have been far happier with recognition for a less precarious achievement. I am prouder of what I accomplished in the next two years in the Middle East...
Would those people who are against kids playing video games be happier if we spent our time and money smoking, drinking or taking drugs...
There were happier things too, about Dreamland--nights in cars with girls whose names were Diana Leigh and Valerie Lynn, girls whose names ran together if their faces did not; of hunting in crisp mornings for pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland and remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation...