Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mourning for Talal's murdered father, King Abdullah, once more came alive. Youngsters ran through the streets shouting, "Welcome, King Talal!" Crowds shouted their congratulations, and Bedouins from the desert fired rifles into the air. From the housetops, women set up the weird wail that among Arabs denotes joy...
...last shot forced an out, the new queen uttered an unqueenly "Yeeow!" Then she scampered to the net for a proper handshake, grabbed a towel near the umpire's chair and sobbed into it for joy over beating all the big girls at last...
...Reds agreed, proposing only that each side have two delegates in the subcommittee instead of one (so that the North Koreans and the Chinese "volunteers" could both be represented). Joy was willing...
...first meeting of the small group, Joy named Major General Henry Hodes and Rear Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. The Communists named North Korea's Lee Song Cho and Red China's Hsieh Feng. That day only four allied newsmen went to Kaesong-one reporter, one photographer, one newsreel cameraman and a radioman. The Reds obliged by sending only four newsmen of their...
Impressed by Admiral Joy's immovability at the full-dress councils, the Peking radio had taken to calling him "Stonewall Joy." Also from the Communist radio came the first hints of a compromise. Their position was "not inflexible," the Reds said: "adjustments" were possible and the "first steps" toward peace had been taken. Presumably these adjustments meant that the Chinese would abandon their insistence on a 38th parallel cease-fire line, and agree to some kind of defensible military lines for both sides, as the U.N. has urged all along...