Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November 1959 when Hawaii's Kilauea Iki volcano suddenly erupted and formed a lava pool 300 ft. deep in its own crater, no one in the neighborhood saw any particular reason to cheer. But at the University of California's Livermore Radiation Laboratory, the news brought joy to the hearts of a pair of bright young scientists. To Geologist Donald Rawson, 26, and Physicist Gary Higgins, 33, the new lava pool sounded like an ideal testing site for a key phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare: a plan for harnessing a steam-powered turbogenerator...
...those Louisiana mothers derive such joy in intentionally piercing the tender feelings of a little dark-skinned tot? Can they puncture the heart of a first-grade girl and still hope to have Christ in their Christmas...
...royal family. He's a one-camera-at-a-time man. Said he: "I can only tell you what I personally use a camera for. Basically, it is to record a moment-a moment that is vital-to give the viewer a sensation of liveliness, sadness, joy and so on. One sees people wandering about looking like a photographic Christmas tree, and when they want to use any of their apparatus, it takes so long to disentangle it that the moment is lost." Is Tony still an active photographer? "Yes. Of course, my scope is a little limited...
Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a youth that was unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet...
...intricately subtle and profoundly joyous cantata, and he wrote for it instrumental parts that are as demanding as they are various and voice parts that combine a considerable amount of colortura with an unusually high tessitura. Under Elliot Forbe's direction, most of the intricacies were blurred, and the joy appeared in frequent flashes...