Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOY E. BRAND...
Portuguese officials insisted that the delirious joy in Portugal at the ship's return-and the failure of the revolt against Salazar-was equaled only by the joy in the "overseas provinces" of the nation's far-flung empire. But then officials were stunned by news of renewed and savage rioting in Portugal's restless African colony of Angola, and began spluttering denials of the reports trickling out through the colonial censorship. From the capital city of Luanda came word that swarms of Africans hurled themselves against a police station and were methodically mowed down by automatic...
...technical adjustments to make the 1958 principle more applicable, and it does not challenge the improbable assumption that individual instruction should be provided only in the context of an Honors program. Gill's proposal is a needed set of changes, but we aren't going to jump for joy...
...Bohan's hip-hugging skirts, exotic colors ("Laburnum yellow," "Provence apricot,"), and infinite attention to detail and neatness, generally embracing the flapper trend, stunned the salon and sent reporters into paroxysms of joy. "But Marc Bohan is wonderful," cried a converted Eugenia Sheppard. "Five minutes after the show started, I felt like a cat before a saucer of cream...
Died. Elsa, 5, 300-lb. lioness-companion of Mrs. Joy Adamson, a Kenya game warden's wife who recounted her pet's half-domesticated, half-savage career in Born Free, one of 1960's top bestsellers; of undetermined natural causes; in the Kenya jungle. Taken in by Mrs. Adamson as an orphaned cub, Elsa slept, ate and played with the Adamsons for three happy years until they reluctantly returned her to jungle freedom, from which she would re-emerge periodically to show off to them her own three cubs...