Word: delightfully
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...season was broken for one day only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...
...relativity theory, fewer still have any notion of how it might benefit mankind. He has been called atheist, radical, many another hard name. Yet Manhattan's famed Riverside Church has already enshrined him in stone among the great scientists of all time, and conservative heads of state delight to honor...
Hemmed in by the war to a field which he clearly dominates, Grand Master Botvinnik is itching to get back into international competition. Last week he hailed with delight a U.S. Chess Review proposal for a radio match between the ten best U.S. chessmen and Russia's best ten. Said the Grand Master: "I think it will . . . strengthen the cultural relations between the United Nations...
cabbage patch, a 14-year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...
...smooth, husky executive secretary, Paul Lockwood; his press manager, James C. Hagerty,* onetime New York Timesman; Hickman Powell, ex-expert New York Herald Tribune reporter; his Banking Superintendent, Elliott V. Bell, and Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran, who is also Manhattan G.O.P. leader. Last week, to the delight of Democrats, Tom Curran brought out an official Dewey campaign song, to the tune of Yankee Doodle: Oh, Tom E. Dewey came to town A-ridin' on a pony He busted gangs and jailed the mobs And cleared out every phony. Tom E. Dewey keep...