Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead of dwelling on the bitter list of sufferings, I would like to invite you to share with a prisoner's wife a rare moment of joy. If the prisoner has in no way aroused the wrath of the camp authorities, once a year he has the right to receive a visit from his family members. You can easily imagine how eagerly his wife or mother waits for that encounter. But the trip to the distant camps is lengthy and costly. And what about the children? Somebody has to take care of them while their mother is away...
...call for clear skies, drought when they predict precipitation. Indeed, the weatherman's plight will probably not change a millibar from that described by the English meteorologist Sir Napier Shaw. Wrote he: "A forecaster's heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger meddleth not with its joy...
Enter the winner, and hero, of Maccoby's book The Gamesman (285 pages; $8.95), published last week by Simon & Schuster. The gamesman loves glory and winning-not for the sake of wealth or power (though he may acquire both) but for the sheer joy of victory. He detests losing. Maccoby, 43, isolated the type after six years of Rorschach tests, dream analysis and interviews with 250 managers (4% of them women) at twelve elite U.S. companies. As Maccoby's interviews, conducted for the Harvard Project on Technology, Work and Character, took him higher into corporate structures, he found...
...press conference last fall announcing his appointment as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jerry West wept tears of joy over returning to basketball. "Wait until he sees the Lakers," somebody snickered. Others suggested that West could best help his old team by finding the fountain of youth and coming back as himself, the matchless Mr. Clutch who as a high-scoring guard led the Lakers into the N.B.A. playoffs 14 times in 14 years. The post-West Lakers had been a crying shame, winding up the 1976 season next to last in the Pacific Division with a dismal...
...Turner Joy and the USS Maddox, the two U.S. destroyers which invaded North Vietnamese waters in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, were on NSA assignment...