Word: exultancy
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Does TIME give thanks that thousands of servicemen have been returned safe & sound to their loved ones? Does TIME exult in the successful conclusion of a great war? Does TIME shout from the housetops that Americans still live abundantly...
...There are many distinct publics with sharply divergent tastes. ... It is for the editor to choose [his public]. ... If he believes that there are more morons in the field than any other class and is indifferent to all save mass circulation, he will make a paper for morons and exult in the volume of circulation hereby gained...
Burden and Credit. One man more than any other had a right to exult over this fruition of Red air power. Rescuing and rebuilding the Air Force, after Germany's assault had all but knocked it out, had been no one-man job. But one man shouldered the heaviest part of the burden and in Russia he gets the lion's share of the credit. He is Marshal Alexandr Alexandrovich Novikov, chief of the Red Air Force...
...bomb Rome? The deed, he warned, "would rankle in the memory of every good European as did Rome's destruction by the Goths." Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 56), 79-year-old retired Archbishop of Canterbury, seconded the Bishop. Lord Lang was distressed by a tendency to "exult and gloat" over the bombings of Germany. He feared that this attitude would result in "a lamentable lapse" in Britons' outlook...
...Shall we the Catholics of America remain silent. . . ? The communists, athe ists and pagans . . . will exult if Rome . . . with its churches, tombs, altars, monuments, relics . . . becomes a huge conflagration and the sacred bones of its holy Martyrs consumed and lost forever...