Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hugh Foot had written a letter to the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, offering to let him return to the island once violence ceased. Climbing down slightly from past positions, Makarios no longer rejected a "transitory stage of self-government." But he was not likely to be made happier by the amazing gaffe committed last week by the Archbishop of Canterbury on a TV broadcast. Explaining why he had invited Makarios to attend the forthcoming Lambeth Conference of bishops in London, the Archbishop of Canterbury said, "By tradition he is one of the officials invited." "But then," he added...
...tells of a simple shepherd who descends from the Pyrenees into the worldly "Tiefland" (the Lowland) to marry his master's doxy. When he mistakenly suspects that his bride's inclination is still to the manor bed, he at first considers stabbing her, later hits on the happier solution of strangling the landowner and loping back to the hills with his wife in his arms. This tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded...
Most of the earth's space-conscious scientists would be much happier if the first lunar probes merely pass around the moon, examining it with instruments or cameras, and bring or radio their information back to earth. This delicate problem in celestial mechanics has been worked on for more than a century in finer and finer detail. Many factors must be considered, including the speed of the probe, the motion of the moon around the earth, and the overlapping gravitational fields of the earth, moon and sun (see diagram...
...victory over Penn is usually nothing to get excited about, but the varsity showed a welcome reversal of form from the M.I.T. game last week. Coach Bruce Munro said that he was happier about the team's improvement than about the victory, which was more or less routine...
...Business is happier when the Capitol is deserted...