Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joy Every Quarter. One of the townspeople-whom no one really remembered-who set forth to make his fortune in the New World was a Genoese foundling named Leopoldo Pietro Saturno, whom a San Marco farmer and his wife adopted to help with the chores. At 20 he left for the U.S. and settled on an irrigated farm beside Reno's Truckee River. Soon he was able to send back to San Marco for his bride-his village sweetheart, Teresa Tissians. By the time he died in 1919, Leopoldo had raised five children and laid the foundations...
...gift for San Marco. Everyone in the village would be given 25 shares of Bank of America stock, worth $1,200, with annual dividends running to $80 or more. Said Joseph: "We felt that giving them stock, so they would get a dividend check every quarter, would put joy in everyone's heart." Argued Victor: "Then we thought that because of America's trouble with Russia . . . this might be a pretty good move. Because if Italy went Communist, the whole of Africa would be open to Russia." He added: "If these people hang onto their stock, it will...
...relatives and friends. When one of his sisters broke into tears, Mahmud told her not to worry, said soothingly that "death comes to everyone in this world." Driving in a police car to Naserieh Square, where the public execution was to be held, Mahmud sang contentedly: "O what a joy it will be to pass on to another world to hunt for a new sweetheart...
...coincidences as magic omens and tried to have all his books published on his birthday (Feb. 2). He wore a special ring to ward off blindness. He carried a picture of the 17th century Due de Joyeux (no kin) in his wallet and told people that Joyce, i.e., joy, meant the same as Freud (joy in German...
...evening's high points the company performed a traditional pole dance, stepping with unhurried grace through a grid of clashing poles clapped together in an accelerating syncopated rhythm. The dancers-many of them in their teens-showed a simple, unsophisticated enthusiasm that kindled a sense of joy in the audience. At a party after the opening night performance they decided to express their gratitude to Impresario Sol Hurok by serenading him as "Lolo," meaning Grandfather. They picked that particular form of address, one Filipina explained seriously, "because he has been so helpful to us; besides...