Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like to see a prosperous and once-more splendid China again," he says...
...delighted beyond belief that they are returning--they were wonderful company and splendid members of the community," Mitchell wrote. "Indeed, I would hold Senator and Mrs. Simpson up as models of what Resident Scholars at their best can, and do, offer the Houses...
...then, once upon a time again, the same little girl grew up and fell in love and married a prince. She seemed so happy for such a splendid moment that the whole world paused to marvel at and rejoice with her, falling in love with Diana in love. But she quickly learned that the dynasty she had joined was dysfunctional and synthetic, that although she had borne her husband an heir, she could never truly become his Queen. And when she died, suddenly, a day after the 36th anniversary of her christening, the world, still in love, stopped...
...family--making it stable, firm, happy--would help save humankind. Her father and mother had failed miserably at family. She did not intend to. But she stumbled into the very nightmare she sought to avoid and became the spectacular mirror for other people's disappointments: the most splendid of cautionary tales. In the monumental ruin of Diana's life, people saw the limits of their own aspirations...
Eleven days before the election, the President is accused of sexual dalliance with a visitor to the Oval Office--an underage visitor, at that. What's needed, the spin doctor (a coolly cynical Robert De Niro) decrees, is a splendid little war to divert the populace. None being handy, one will have to be invented out of rumor and falsified electronic imagery...