Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handicapped-by blindness, the loss of a limb, by tuberculosis, epilepsy, or some other crippling disease. Of the total, only a relative few were permanently employed. But the estimates are that some 4,000,000 can eventually be rehabilitated and gainfully employed. Not only would rehabilitation lead them into happier lives, but with the increasing complexity of such U.S. industries as electronics and aviation, handicapped people can actually perform many skilled and delicate jobs better than able-bodied workers...
...gentility sometimes wears thin. Given half a chance, a saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button-pointed foil (which scores points only when its point touches the torso) rips through a protecting canvas jacket and draws a few drops of blood...
...ground, a strange funeral ceremony took place. Beside the heaped-up wood of a funeral pyre, a Christian read prayers. Then a Hindu lit the dry wood, and the flames leapt up around the body of Denis Doyle, who had died confident that he-and all men -would be happier without a body...
...Millionaire (Wed. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is the kind of sudsy show that would be happier in an afternoon spot than competing for grownups' attention at night. The peculiar theme of the series: an anonymous tycoon has decided to distribute $1,000,000 each week to some member of the deserving poor. So far, all the series has proved is that, if money will not buy happiness, it will at least make a happy sponsor (Colgate-Palmolive...
Beside this, a generation of Harvard law students would be healthier, happier, and richer by the price of three year's athletic participation tickets...