Word: splendid
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...famed "cram" parlors were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct detriment and danger...
...tradition as old as the Republic, some officials regarded Government service as a splendid opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies. Victor Thompson, president of the Synthetic Fuels Corp., resigned after disclosures that he had sought help for his private bank from a Texas oilman who was doing business with the Government corporation...
Today, Gaudio and Valli could retire and still earn a splendid living. Every time a radio station plays one of their records, the partnership makes money. Royalties from past hits bring in as much as $700,000 a year. Many of Gaudio's perky compositions seem to be perpetual money-makers. The first song he ever wrote was Short Shorts; more than two decades later it became the theme song in commercials for Nair hair-removal cream...
...more compelling than rhetoric, however, was the visual image of Gary Hart: rough-hewn and handsome, dressed in a dark blue suit and trademark black cowboy boots, standing in splendid isolation halfway up a mountain. The lone political warrior towering above his rivals is precisely Hart's position nine months before the Iowa caucuses. It has been Hart vs. a still indistinguishable field ever since New York Governor Mario Cuomo decided to sit out the 1988 race. A Washington Post-ABC News preference poll of Democrats last month gave Hart 46% and Jesse Jackson 14%, with no other active...
Those who tend Washington decade after decade have many faults, but there are splendid moments when the best rise to defend this ungainly democracy. When Lyndon Johnson passed the acceptable threshold of bloodshed in Viet Nam, the political establishment weighed in. Richard Nixon violated the law andthe threshold of decency in Watergate, and the city exposed and expelled him. Reagan crossed a threshold of mismanagement, and is being called to account...