Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going-home-at-night.") Distressed citizens raised funds for a beautification program, got WPA help, dredged and cleaned the river, built arched bridges, cobblestone terraces and walks, planted trees, grass and flowers along the "big bend" section. Today the river park is the city's pride & joy...
...With grudging satisfaction they noted U.N. willingness to forgo a ban on the building of North Korean airfields during the truce. But they still fiercely disputed the U.N.'s right to keep 100,000 military and civilian prisoners who had voted against a return to Communist control. Admiral Joy then coolly suggested that the truce talks be indefinitely suspended until the Reds were ready to accept the U.N. plan...
...Joy carefully avoided any phrasing which would threaten a final break, but the Reds, who had suffered from temporary interruptions before, seemed anxious that the daily meetings continue. They did continue-in the form of 10-to-20-minute token sessions, mostly given over to Red stalling and propaganda. Perhaps the Communists were afraid that a breakoff would lead to heavier fighting, and that the defections in the U.N. prison camps-which had obviously surprised them-might spread to their fighting armies...
...good for Forest Lawn. You'll notice all these paintings, even the smiling ones, have a kind of sad look and a definitely European face. Now, what I'm looking for is a Christ filled with radiance and looking upward with an inner light of joy and hope. I want an American-faced Christ...
Stace rejects any literal interpretation of religious belief: "The devil* laughs with joy when he finds that the saint takes his beliefs to be facts, because he knows that he has then an easy prey." His reasoning, which sometimes runs through pretty deep water, is that an Infinite God can have no connection with the natural order of things, since everything in the universe or connected with it must by definition have some limitations of time or space...