Word: gladding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more things I do where the character is, like, a virginal, innocent, sexually naive kind of guy," he acknowledges. "Only because being 28, it's just getting laughable to me." Not that that's why he took the part, he adds. "But am I glad I didn't have to do four or five scenes where I talk about being a virgin or have trouble talking to girls? Sure...
Those who take the leap usually say they're glad they did, according to Jack Lazor, an organic farmer in Vermont since 1976, who has helped dozens of others get their start. "They try it for the money, and then six months later, they say they'd never do it any other...
...confident lengthy detention without the chance to pass messages through lawyers can break up terror cells and prompt confessions. "We're getting a great deal of useful information," says Colonel Barry Johnson, spokesman for U.S. forces at Camp Delta. Antiterror officials in other countries say they're also glad of the gleanings from interrogations there. Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, head of France's counterterrorism and counterespionage service dst, told Time that "our American colleagues are telling us important things that they are hearing from suspects on Guantánamo," which are "significant in qualitative and quantitative terms" - though...
...court's to give. Gays have found their own dignity through decades of refusing to hide. For the court to come around, at this late date, to acknowledging our existence as "free persons" is shockingly patronizing; it's condescension that has been cast as liberation. I'm glad those two Texas fellas can freely have sex, but they still can't visit each other in certain hospitals, serve openly in the military or get married. Let's save the banner headlines for when they...
...mercifully warm refuge from the icebound expanse was the 117-meter, scientific-cum-tourist ship Akademik Ioffe, with its hot breakfasts and convivial bar. In a place where 15-story glaciers regularly shed apartment-size chunks into the ocean, I was glad of this sanctuary. I gingerly asked Kathy, the expedition's kayaking instructor, how long I would survive in the near-freezing water if I fell in without wearing a wet suit. "About six minutes or so," she said...