Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered a town, suddenly a shout went up from Korean soldiers on tops of jeeps and from dirty, wearied refugees. Wildly cheering people ran into the dusty roads and pointed at the sky. All traffic stopped. Never had I seen such a heartfelt manifestation of joy. Above us, flying northward in neat formation, were six American...
...were just as surprised as the Koreans. We had no idea whether the U.S. Government would have the guts to live up to its obligations here. At the same time we wondered if this was the beginning of World War III. But however mixed our emotions, the joy and relief of the Koreans were overpowering. For the first time in the long trip we felt we could hold up our heads among the Koreans...
...course it's nice," wrote the Communist Neues Deutschland, explaining the purpose of the new Aufklärungsdampfer (enlightenment steamer), "to lie in the broiling sun and let the mind wander [but] amid the joy over peace it is all too easy to forget that one has to do something to preserve peace. Today one can discuss [world affairs] at complete ease in a bathing suit on the beach or floating in a fat inner tube . . . Should excitable natures flare up during the discussion, there is a simple solution-jump in the water...
...client's story, he soon uncovers the sources of Luther Eustis' tragedy. His was a life dominated by gnawing fears and nagging frustrations. As a child, Luther had watched his father destroy himself after learning of his wife's infidelity. As a man, he had found joy neither in his scraggly wife nor his children, one of them an idiot. Only in revivalist religion did he find any outlet for his cramped, unexercised emotions...
...Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Woodrow Wilson) in his peasant disguise is quoted more often than Lincoln. Santayana and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and just about as often as Franklin and Thoreau. Not many U.S. workers would go along with Grayson-Baker's ideas of the simple life: "Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and homemade bread-there...