Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel operators and storekeepers of Italy listened to the Pope with a special joy last week. In his semi-annual radio address to the world's Catholics, Pius XII announced officially that 1950 would be a Holy Year-the 25th in the church's history**-during which Catholics who visit Rome to "venerate the tombs of the Apostles and the See of Peter" earn special indulgences for their sins...
Last week Ethel was back at Cross's side; when she first saw him she was so hysterical with joy it took half an hour to get her harness on. She had been fitted with modified welder's goggles (see cut). In a month Dr. Blasdel will check her eyes to see if she needs different lenses. Dr. Blasdel could do nothing for her master. Cross, now 30, lost his sight in an accident when he was 14; the optic nerve has atrophied...
...Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has 'Struck Out,' " Candidate Stassen subsided into pensive silence...
This prospect brought no joy to Brazilian diplomats, whose nation has long been the fair-haired hemispheric boy of U.S. military planning. The U.S. had no intention of abandoning so old and strategically located a friend as Brazil. But planners in the Pentagon, thinking in terms of securing the U.S.'s southern flank, figured that Argentina is the most powerful nation in Latin America, and that Washington would do well to be on the good side of its army leaders...
Just after lunch on Friday last week, Wall Streeters were seized with joy. Traders in the New York Stock Exchange cheered, jumped up & down, and thumped each other. Reason for excitement: the Dow-Jones industrial average had broken through its previous high mark of 187.66 -made in 1947-as the rail average had done 19 weeks before (TIME, April 19). Under the famed Dow theory, which many traders swear by, that meant only one thing: a bull market...