Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cooke (1) 2-The Joy of Sex, Com/or/ (4) 3 -How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (2) 4-Upstairs at the White House, West with Kofz...
...years ago the students who attended James Madison, considered one of the finest high schools in Brooklyn up until a week ago last Monday, were the college-bound sons and daughters of lawyers, doctors and business executives. They were all white and mostly Jewish. They were the pride and joy of city school administrators. During the past ten years the student population has undergone a gradual transformation. Now the academic stars of the school are the children of hardware store owners, bookkeepers and salesmen. Their last names are DeMario, Poulanski and occasionally Goldberg. They are headed for the state universities...
...birthday of the world's latest self-governing nation was a subdued, almost furtive occasion. Joy was restrained, to say the least, and so were the celebrations. Pubs and clubs in all of Papua New Guinea were closed not only on Dec. 1, the first day of self-rule, but also on the days preceding and following the historic event. The passage of power was officially marked only by a brief ceremony in the capital of Port Moresby, where the Australian administrator changed his title to high commissioner, the equivalent of ambassador...
...arrival was anxious to work the land ("That was the ideal life I wanted for myself," he would recall. "I saw in that the renewal of the Jewish nation"). He settled in the Galilean village of Sejera and insisted in later years that farming there had been his greatest joy. Friends, however, said that he was a less than expert plowman because he spent most of his time reading and studying...
...People. The Jews of this newly created nation of Israel danced for joy. Ben-Gurion knew that five Arab armies were massed against his people, and he realized that the proclamation he had read was their call to war. Ben-Gurion acted as Defense Minister as well as Prime Minister and shrewdly defended his fledgling country on four fronts. At the same time, he prevented civil war by ordering Israeli soldiers to fire if the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) attempted to land weapons for itself from the freighter Altalena in defiance of a Ben-Gurion...