Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happiest Victory. All the polls had predicted a Wilson sweep. On election night, the very first returns indicated that they might be right. The next reports confirmed it. All across Britain, party workers at Labor clubhouses swilled beer and danced with joy as one red pin after another replaced blue ones on election maps, indicating that yet another Tory constituency had fallen to Wilson. At the final count, Labor won 363 seats v. the Tories' 253. The Liberals picked up two seats for a total of twelve. It was Labor's best showing -and the Tories' worst...
...that devout Jews neither uttered nor wrote his sacred name.* At the same time, Judaism has a unique sense of God's personal presence. Scripture records that he walked in the Garden of Eden with Adam, spoke familiarly on Mount Sinai with Moses, expressed an almost human anger and joy. Christianity added an even more mystifying dimension to the belief that the infinitely distant was infinitely near: the doctrine that God came down to earth in the person of a Jewish carpenter named Jesus, who died at Jerusalem around...
Born Free is a posthumous triumph for Elsa the lioness, one of the queen beasts of her time and now the subject of a lively movie biography that should leave audiences purring with satisfaction. Heroine of two bestsellers by Joy Adamson, wife of a senior game warden in Kenya, Elsa began her well-documented career as an orphan cub, became a 300-lb. lapful of love and affection, but ultimately returned to her wild, natural way of life. The clincher of this zoological success story is that Elsa, once taught by her human protectors how to stalk and kill, remained...
THAT most typical product of American civilization-1 the auto-brings joy, jobs, mobility, freedom. It also brings economic waste and human pain. Death and destruction on the highway are now the subject of muckraking books, rock-'n'-roll ballads, congressional inquiry, and serious self-examination in Detroit. The auto represents power, speed and progress-and each of these elements involves risk. As long as men move, there will be accidents. But need there be so much human cost? Clearly the answer...
...outhouse the python plops down to crush him-and inadvertently knocks from the eaves a shoe box containing 10,000 long-abandoned dollars. The hunt completed, the python slain, the treasure delivered to its rightful inheritor, Milo discovers that there is more to life than the gift of genital joy...