Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that way. The general conviction maintained by attackers of the Miles-Nolan bill, which would legalize medical experimentation upon five percent of Boston's annual 3500 crop of stray dogs, is that the brethren of the medical profession are all natural sadists who derive orgiastic joy from the sufferings of mute beasts. A plethora of theological arguments are also adduced to show that what God hath made, no mere man should rend asunder...
...post-reception speech, delivered before 500 Bloomingtonians at a dinner in the Illinois Hotel, that made his fellow Democrats jump with joy. The speech was sometimes folksy (with recollections of Halloween pranks), sometimes eloquent, always forthright. Stevenson laid into his rival, Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, with one haymaker after another. He accused the Green administration of shaking down Illinois businessmen, of being responsible for the deaths of in men in last spring's Centralia mine tragedy, of neglecting the upkeep of once-model state institutions. He cried: "The unconscionable spoils machine which . . . now holds the state...
...copy desk sends the stories back to the department's senior editor. There are six departmental senior editors, each with a staff of writers and researchers. The senior editors form the next circle; their day of misery or joy is Sunday, and their task is to act as "arms" of the managing editor. They sometimes hand stories back to be written again-occasionally four or five times. By Sunday, if the stories are not "right," the senior editor rewrites them...
...wrote poetry for his beautiful neighbor, Fraulein Jenny von Westphalen, who, whenever she read one of his poems, "burst into tears of joy and melancholy." Sample: "If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt I shall fling my glove in the world's face; then I, a creator, shall stride through the wreckage...
...Ochsner innovation is the special recovery room to which patients are taken immediately after operations. Each bed is piped for oxygen; emergency equipment like blood plasma is at hand; nurses are always in the room; relatives and friends are kept out. The room is Ochsner's pride & joy...