Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week ahead of time, 12,000 Republicans in the nation's capital jammed Uline Arena to buy a boxed chicken supper, gaze at drum majorettes and applaud an aged American Indian in spectacles and war bonnet. With partisan joy they listened to a series of grim, lowbrow political messages reeking with campaign clich...
...persuaded to go no closer by the Seventh Fleet's commander, Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble. Later, MacArthur decorated Struble with the Distinguished Service Cross, though Struble had done little more, heroically speaking, than stand on his bridge in a calm sea. Vice Admiral C. T. Joy, Far East naval commander, got one too. When MacArthur finally landed, he passed out Silver Stars to three Marine officers-and two South Korean naval officers who happened to be passing...
Dulles invited the Japanese to consider "the maintenance of United States armed forces in and about Japan" after the treaty, until the Japanese could undertake their own defense. Said Yoshida: "The government and majority of the Japanese people welcome the invitation heartily and with joy...
Only in Panama would joy be confined. There, an outbreak of 130 polio cases led President Arnulfo Arias to call off all public assemblies. But in Trinidad, the calypso tents have been billowing for weeks to the chants of contenders for the title of 1951 calypso king. In Haiti, more than 30,000 people, clad in bamboo suits of armor and other bizarre costumes, loped along mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree...
...expanding bank account-this ideal conceived purely in these terms is not good enough. It is ... a very timid ideal. It is not dangerous enough; it does not answer to man's deepest hunger for truth and community, where going out of one's self is a joy, and where it is more blessed to give than to receive. Confronted with this ideal alone, Asia-if I must be frank with you-is not impressed. In fact, despite all her darkness and misery, Asia can still do better. And an Asian who knows something of the [West...