Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strangers and so afraid of the fugú, or epidemics like smallpox, that have ravaged the area in the past that they are reported to abandon sick people to die alone and unaided. Their precarious existence permits few to reach old age, and they seem to find little joy in life. Yet the Tasaday like to stand in the rain and let the water course down their bodies. And they enjoy the music of the kúbing, a kind of jew's-harp made from bamboo and carried from place to place in a bamboo...
...When a telegram announces the death of Aunt Viola in Nebraska, old man and boy take off in the trailer, precariously hitched to an ancient Maxwell. On their way to the home place by the Platte River, they pick up two oligosyllabic polycopulative young people named Stanley and Joy, and a dubious battle sets in between the hippies and old Uncle Floyd for the soul...
...Joy Skon '73, number one singles, swept her match...
...Morgan '73 won 6-2, 7-5. "Joy won so easily that Meg's match seemed really close. It was a good one to watch," Evans said...
...that tournament Joy Skon '73, number one singles, played "better than anyone from Radcliffe has done in the last four or five years," Evans said...