Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fastest-growing sports. Though first put on skis at the age of three, Prager had not set boot to binding for 26 years. His talks with Seibert provided all the inspiration he needed. After a few hours at the Vail ski school, he recalls, "I discovered to my pleasant surprise that some of the old balance and ski sense were still there...
...FEBRUARY, Hynes received another, more pleasant surprise. He was asked to play on the American Olympic Olympic team, which went on to earn the silver medal in the competition in Japan. Hynes refused. "I felt I had an obligation to Harvard hockey," he said, explaining his decision. "If I had gone to the Olympics; I would have missed the Pennsylvania and Clarkson games, Also. I didn't know whether I could handle the work. Harvard was going to send my exams to Japan. It would have been hard to play Olympic hockey in the afternoon and take an exam...
...mystical state of consciousness." After her recovery, a nurse who nearly died from an allergic reaction to penicillin reported an experience of bliss and ecstasy in which she was idyllically absorbed in contemplating a mental picture of the Taj Mahal. Similarly, Heim reported: "Death through falling is subjectively very pleasant. Those who have died in the mountains have, in their last moments, reviewed their individual pasts in states of transfiguration. Elevated above corporeal grief, they were under the sway of noble and profound thoughts, heavenly music, and a feeling of peace and reconciliation. They fell through a blue and roseate...
...Captain Courageous are the best. They all play with the right amount of archness, overacting just enough to remind us that we are, after all, superior to this sort of thing nowadays. It's a little bit like taking candy from a baby, but it makes for a pleasant enough evening at the theater...
...land of Supermoney is a villain. For instance, there is Warren Buffett, manager of a private investment fund that grew to $105 million at the incredible appreciation rate of 31% compounded annually over 15 years. Buffett was not exactly one of your Wall Street hotshots. Headquartered in a pleasant residential section of Omaha, he rarely talked to the security-analyst savants of New York City, and operated on the out-of-date theory that a stock should reflect a company's intrinsic value...