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Word: delightfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER hours of anxious waiting, the phone rings. As he hangs up the receiver, James Baker turns to face the staff, his face shining with delight...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Choice of a Pop Generation | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

...away . . . Often, I tried to kill him, but he never dies." At St. Lawrence University, the ragman's son was the target of anti-Semites. He answered them by becoming a varsity wrestling champion, then running successfully for office. "The alumni were furious," Douglas remembers with perverse delight: " 'What's happening to SLU? A Jew boy president of the student body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buried Child THE RAGMAN'S SON | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...cozy parks, which often seat no more than 5,000, customers can sit in the top row of the grandstand and still catch snippets of conversations among ballplayers in the batting cage below. Trotting down to the bullpen wall for an autograph is easy. And to the delight of baseball purists, Astroturf has not made it to many minor-league parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonanza In The Bushes | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Geography, much to the bane of schoolchildren and delight of their teachers, has always been considered one of the staples of elementary school education. By learning about the different countries in the world, it was rationalized, children would better understand America's own diversity of heritages...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: "Cuba's Next to China, Right?" | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

...irrational fantasies will be extinguished as soon as Ryan, John, Sutton and Nettles hang up their spikes. Meanwhile, my own team, the baleful, basket-case Baltimore Orioles, those baseball bunglers who butchered 21 straight, have tumbled beyond human salvation. If perchance you are reading these words with devilish delight, Applegate, here is one middle-aged soul ready to deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Boys of Late Autumn | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

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