Word: happiest
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...happiest surprise of the championships was the return of the Chinese. They had not competed in the world championships or Olympics since 1962, and, in a sport in which yesterday's supertrick is today's ordinary item, they were not expected to stir much attention. Chinese Men's Coach Xia Dejun admitted that the gap had hurt his country's development program. Said he: "During the Cultural Revolution, many of the schools were closed, most of the spare-time sports academies were closed, and for five years there was no training for our gymnasts...
...implant surgery runs around $3,500, including hospitalization; for the inflatable prosthesis the cost can go as high as $9,000. Despite the expense, which some medical insurance does not cover, the operations are becoming increasingly popular, and doctors performing them say that implanted men are among the happiest patients they have ever seen...
Near the fence, you can see clumps of police surrounding the site. The seven-foot fence, topped with three strands of barbed wire, will become a symbol--fence-cutting represents direct action against the plant; and among the happiest shouts of the weekend is the one that goes up Monday morning when one group returns from a nighttime foray with 30 feet of the tempered steel. But now, the fence is only in the way, and the goals--the rusting reactor vessel and the turbine building, each flying an American flag--stand outlined in the dawn...
...gazed up at the Cheops pyramid, shopped in the bazaars and once even cried out, "This is one of the happiest days of my life!" In other words, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, 64, behaved like any other tourist on his first trip to Cairo and environs. Visiting, by coincidence, on the twelfth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Dayan was in town with his wife Rachel to talk to Egyptian officials about opening the borders between their two countries. At one point a storeowner proudly showed him a copy of a pharaonic deity. "It's very nice...
John Updike comments on the reputation of his class as the "silent generation": "We didn't question the in- tervention (in Korea). The idea that nations now and then fought was an unquestioned assumption. There was no doubt that America was the strongest and happiest nation in the world and opportunities were what we made them...