Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lulu Perez, carried away by the unexpectedly easy victory, wept for joy, and his handlers covered his head with a towel for fear the fans would think their man a softie. The crowd, many of them from Willie's home town of Hartford, Conn., booed and jeered the champ, cracked that Willie had given far less than his all. New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry had no patience with such speculation: "Any evil talk is a slur on a once-great fighter who took the beating of his life. The result speaks for itself. This...
...parallel trend: collections of broody "theme" music, some of it specially composed. Capitol Records has several brisk-selling numbers in this department, one of them entitled The Passions, with subthemes entitled Despair, Ecstasy, Hate, Lust, Terror, Jealousy and Joy. On the jacket: the picture of a lush young woman lost in a mixture of subthemes...
Your article on the lack of salesmen . . . is a joy to one who has recently been promising herself that she would buy a police whistle, take her stand in a store, and blow it for help...
...Your lovely color photos of the ballerinas (especially Maria Tallchief) were sheer joy to these jaded eyes. Many, many thanks for your tribute to my favorite art, and bravo to the New York City Ballet, which is the best in this whole world...
...They also mustered 40,000 troops, police, Boy Scouts and volunteer workers to insure that no harm should come to the faithful. But when the holy men and the first procession headed back from the confluence, they were confronted by tens of thousands of other pilgrims, surging in joy to the waters. The holy men, ascetic but arrogant Nagas, wielded their ancient maces, spears and tridents to ward off the crowd. "The pilgrims got the impression that the Nagas were violent," explained the authorities afterward, "and therefore ran for their lives, crushing to death the infirm, the old and others...