Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Jerry Owen himself bounced onto the stage with a shout of joy--his expensive suit and spacious bay window hinted that the path of righteousness hadn't been too thorny. "Aren't you glad for Jesus?" he shouted, but the audience remained silent. Owen admonished "If you don't say 'amen,' I'm gone come down and get you." Apparently the threat worked, for a little later, when Owen asked everyone who wasn't there to say 'amen,' there was a chorus of automatic amens from the audience...
Cabbages and Kings, by O. Henry (Dec. 17, 1904): "There are times when the story puzzles in its zigzag course . . . but as it is one finds a joy in its very obscurity...
...worthwhile. The bereaved wife, still hoping her husband is alive, goes to the railroad station to meet the last trainload of released prisoners. With alternate shorts of ragged, bearded men finding their families and the despairing woman looking for her husband, Lindtberg achieves a rare atmosphere of suspense, joy, and tragedy...
...bitterness. If, still persevering in our love, we fall to the point where the soul cannot keep back the cry 'My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?', if we remain at this point without ceasing to love, we end by touching something that is not affliction, not joy, something that is the central essence, necessary and pure, something not of the senses, common to joy and sorrow: the very love...
...Authentic Blueblood." The legacy made all of Carmen's daydreams come true-a palace in Seville, a ranch in Andalusia, three houses in Granada, a mansion in San Sebastián, stocks, bonds, and millions of pesetas in cash. The Trigos were beside themselves with joy. They uncorked the Manzanilla. The janitor and some friends stopped in to see what the commotion was about and left to publish the good tidings. By morning the news had spread to the papers in Madrid. Gifts poured in from fashion houses and perfume firms. A local bank placed a 100,000-peseta...