Word: splendid
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...turns out that my wife already knew that. This was not the first time I've carefully explained to my wife something she already knew. I do it all the time, and it's never an absolutely splendid experience for either of us. In this case, my wife had actually met someone who was once a Maytag repairman, working alone in a rural area. He hated those commercials about bored repairmen. Apparently, people would call him to get their appliances repaired, and he'd tell them that, given his appointment schedule, he wouldn't be able to get out there...
...repairman would explain to the caller what I explained to my wife about the commercials. It wasn't an absolutely splendid experience for him, either. By the time my wife met him, he had gone to work for Sears. He was at our house to fix the washing machine...
Overall, a splendid defensive performance...
...then, on the day of the occasion, conceives the idea that the Queen can somehow cure his malaise. At the party he hears and reports on royal conversations, including the Queen's comment on the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, whom she had recently met: "He had splendid hair. Fuzzy wuzzy hair!" As she is leaving, the Queen looks at Theroux and says, "You're in a frightful muddle, aren't you?" He says yes. She tells him to "Go back to books," start writing again. She briefly touches his hand, and, Theroux writes, "something like a bee sting...
...splendid dean and we were very sorry to have him leave the world of academia to devote his full time to government," former Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey '28 said last night. "Wherever he went, he was going to be a force...