Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much happier Mrs. Richardson would be with a better outlook on life. . . . A little kindness, a little thoughtfulness would do wonders in bringing back the glow of joy. Jesus cared for humanity, cared for human souls and even those who did not care for themselves. Long ago Plato said that a real musician makes harmony not merely with his harp but with his life-his life goes into his song...
They began to see more planes, which they identified in the distance as Japanese. Then one day a storm broke over them, flung them up on the crest of a wave and gave them a sudden, unbelievable view of a patch of green. By that time, incapable even of joy, Zamperini could only say flatly: "There's an island over there." They paddled weakly all that day and night, until a second storm swept them inside a coral-ringed lagoon in the Marshalls. It was the 47th day. Spotted by Japanese fishermen, Zamperini and Philips were lifted from...
...Shanghai, Joy! The war's orphans, the men from the gorges of the Salween and the mountain bivouacs of Central China, came to Shanghai, which greeted liberation as no city in the world had greeted...
...Joy, Fear, Enmity. Children laughed and waved. Their parents closed their doors or hid in the corrugated iron shacks that sheltered the bombed-out. Nubile Japanese girls scampered for cover as U.S. troops approached. And civilians in the streets of Tokyo-the men wearing random bits of army uniform, the women in baggy dark trousers and white blouses-stared at the invaders with unconcealed hostility...
...soldiers on the Taylor and about 20 other transports bound from Europe to the Pacific were almost unique in their joy. For both Army & Navy redeployment had become an uneasy nightmare. Among the 7,000,000 soldiers and sailors straining to get home, many were unhappy, angry, disgruntled...