Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virtually everyone in Berlin is likely to head for the same place: the Brandenburg Gate. Once a symbol of the city's loathed division, it was triumphantly reopened in December 1989. A decade later, it is certain to be a particularly joyous gathering place to usher in 2000--with splendid music, wondrous fireworks and considerable jubilation...
...liver had sent in its formal resignation (in the form of alcoholic hepatitis), he quit drinking and--though a ruin of a man, hardly able to take 10 steps without collapsing into a chair--blossomed forth with an extraordinary intellectual radiance and simplicity. He displayed as never before a splendid gift for conversation, for friendship (I knew him a little), for teaching (he was a professor for years at the University of South Carolina) and for fatherhood. It was in that last period--his once massive and muscular body shrunken, gasping for breath because of a fibrosis of the lungs...
...space agenda remains splendid though underfunded. If the leading edge of popular curiosity trends for the moment away from space and toward cloning, we may sense that in the transition the future has grown a little retrograde, at least from a moral and theological point of view. As the American space program began in the '50s, rockets routinely exploded on the launch pad and collapsed into their own ruins like defunct Las Vegas casinos. The nation's leading rocketmeister was the boy wonder of Peenemunde, Wernher von Braun, inventor of Hitler's Vengeance Rocket...
Could you hurt me, sweet lips, though I hurt you? ... O splendid and sterile Dolores, Our Lady of Pain...
Ever since a mediocre trip to Florida in March, in which it went 7-6 and lost thrice to No. 2 Miami, this year's Harvard team has been splendid in its out-of-league games. Harvard has not lost to a non-Ivy team in five games since Miami, and it reached the Beanpot final by handing Northeastern its head on a platter...