Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's flowers emerged from caves and broken buildings. Beside the budding, shrapnel-scarred elms along the streets, they watched. Now & then a youngster clapped or smiled, but mostly they stood with wooden faces, like tired old people who have found life very hard and who take little joy in parades...
...Church of Seattle offered its pulpit at a tempting boost in pay (a starting salary of $8,500 a year, with annual increases of $700 guaranteed up to $12,000). After nearly two months of soul-searching, Ockenga turned the offer down, to his congregation's surprise and joy. "Now what you say to us will mean more," said a member of his flock, and the Park Street Church has grown by 50% since that time. Last year Ockenga was sparkplug and chief organizer for Boston revival meetings with Evangelist Billy Graham that netted "at least 3,000 decisions...
ENTERTAINMENT: Jimmy Durante (NBC) for his "warmth, sincerity and wholehearted joy in what he is doing...
...pamphlet begins: "Girls, you lovely creatures, how would you like to stay young and filled with the joy of living with the perfect man of your dreams forever? Of course you would . . . Granville Gates believes nothing is too good for the girls...
...young U.S. sportsman (Robert Stack) determines, almost as a lark, to learn how to handle the matador's fighting cape and sword. He persuades Mexico's leading bullfighter (Gilbert Roland) to teach him, falls in love with a high-born local girl (Joy Page) and then with the bulls. When Matador Roland dies in the ring while saving Stack's life, Stack, still an amateur, feels he must vindicate his honor and courage in the face of a hostile crowd and a raging bull...