Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school for a lovely sun-kissed Hindu teen-ager named Kumari. Race-conscious troublemakers start spreading ugly rumors. What happens to Greenwood and who gets Kumari makes for a skin-prickling ending that will either have readers biting their nails or sharpening them on the throat of any kill-joy who gives it away...
Then there is junior Joel Cohen who has the potential to be another Rittenburg. Cohen is a coach's Joy, for he is an incomparable hurdler, as well as an excellent broad Jumper and dash man. He has tried his hand at high Jumping, although with not too much success yet, but with practice, he can develop...
...Admiral Joy was commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East when he was detached from the happy duty of battering the enemy to the job of armistice negotiator. At the start, he still held the old-fashioned notion that a line might well be drawn at the points where the belligerents faced each other when one of them cried quits. The Reds said it should be the 38th parallel, which would have given them territory for which the Allies had paid in blood. And thus, a man who had nothing but an Annapolis education, the habit of command...
...Joy chronicles the ups and downs of the negotiations, the walkouts and comebacks, in dry language but with the cold anger always showing through...
...book is a notable document of the only war the U.S. ever ended at a disadvantage. Readers may conclude that Admiral Joy deserves 1) gratitude for helping to bring the U.S. out of the negotiations as well as he did, and 2) an additional award for having endured boredom above and beyond the call of duty...