Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vernon Richter, the joy of farming had vanished; life on a 4OO-acre rented farm near Fergus Falls, Minn, had become a grim effort to survive. Through the freezing winter Richter, 31, cared for his six small children so that his wife could clerk in a Fergus Falls clothing store. When spring came he went into his fields at 4 a.m., stayed until midnight fighting the soil for a fuller yield. But the bills piled...
...John Henderson, a guide, explained to Soviet Ambassador Zarubin, who was there with 30 fellow diplomats for the 180th anniversary celebration of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. "This is a shrine to the principles of freedom," she went on, "and for us Americans the greatest meaning, the greatest joy and the greatest pride lies in the knowledge that this shrine which is ours is not ours only, but for freedom-loving peoples all over the world. And they come here from all over the world, as you, to sit in this building in reverence and homage...
...Baar of the University of Chicago, Episcopal priest-teacher, onetime Lutheran: "The fact that the Anglican Church is right in the middle of the whole Christian tradition is the key to the Anglican way of looking at things . . . With Protestant, Roman and Orthodox Churchmen alike, Anglicans share the full joy and the full sorrow at the picture of the Church as she has made her way through history. But we do not depend upon any age for our inspiration; we do not believe that at any time the essential message of the Church was ever totally obscured, and we look...
...aristocratic Earl of Scarbrough and one of Red China's Vice Premiers, Ulanfu, who shared a howdah, smiled wanly at the cheering crowds as their huge beast heaved and rolled along the line of march. Behind them an elephantload of Indian maharajas grinned as happily as college boys joy riding...
...season around the forest. The wonderful thing is that the movie shows that each occurrence in the forest is important but that none is separate. There are no little things, and there aren't either starts or endings. There isn't too much time for grief or joy about past things in the woods, because each moment is too full...