Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed with that verdict. Wolfe was a best-selling author celebrated for his gargantuan appetites, his 600-page novels with their catalogs of sensual impressions, and his operatic love affair with Stage Designer Aline Bernstein, whom he alternately praised as someone who afforded him the "happiest hours I have ever known" and a "titillative New York Jew." His autobiographical novel Look Homeward, Angel was a sensation, and the title of his third book, You Can't Go Home Again, became a rallying cry. William Faulkner later appraised him as one of the most important contemporary American writers. But even...
...fleas and bedbugs galore, so we'd have to bring our raincoats to put on the chairs. (more laughter) I guess I must really have been in love with my husband to have put up with all of this. He used to tease me later that those were the happiest years of my life, and I would say, "Oh, definitely not!" Then it occurred to me that maybe he had thought all this out so that I would be prepared for everything else...
None of these events, though, were quite so startling, let alone uplifting, as Aquino's almost cheerful revolution. And if the first woman President of the Philippines was the happiest symbol in a year of symbols, she was also the most human. She showed how one individual could inspire in others a faith so powerful that it vindicated itself and changed a country's history. She brought not only a new face into politics, but also a new way of thinking about politics and the virtues it demands. The victory of "People Power" made no dents in the larger issues...
...years in Boston were the most uneventful of Cory's adult life; she has also called them the happiest. In 1983, however, she had to look on stoically as her husband defied repeated warnings from Manila and decided to return to the Philippines to challenge Marcos, death sentence or no. Hardly had Ninoy's plane landed in Manila when he was met by a group of soldiers and hustled out of the plane. Seconds later, shots rang out, and Ninoy Aquino lay dead on the tarmac...
...chased me all around the parking lot screaming 'We're at the 'Happiest Place in the World?'," Branca recalled. His path to "Shmen of the Year" thus began in the Disneyland parking...