Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event?an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. The knowledge of victory was as charged with sorrow and doubt as with joy and gratitude. More fearful responsibilities, more crucial liabilities rested on the victors even than on the vanquished...
...When news of the Japanese surrender offer was flashed around the world, China surrendered to joy. Chungking had waited years for this moment. The news reached its cliffside streets about a half hour after dinner. The first shouting came from houses not far from the Kialing River. It was echoed downriver, then upriver. Soon the separate shouts merged and swelled into the cacophony of a nation delirious with the victory it had scarcely dared to hope would ever come...
...gave the readers of his Autobiography little chance to note the creative passion that made the machine run. And yet, the passion was paramount. "I have wandered alone," Trollope wrote, "among the rocks and woods, crying at (my characters') grief, laughing at their absurdities, and thoroughly enjoying their joy. ... I have lived with my characters. ... a gallery of them, and of all in that gallery I may say that I know the tone of the voice, and the color of the hair, every flame of the eye, and the very clothes they wear...
...American soldier whose room in one of the local hotels she had been sharing for the past 30 days. Helga's reaction was mixed. She said she was very happy because 'now we don't have to hide it any more.' But the joy was somewhat shadowed, she allowed, because 'it is much better when it is forbidden.' "Brigitte Heidenrich and Ingeborg Gassau, both 21, first heard the news at 10:30 in the evening, when two G.I.s hollered up to the window of the house out of which the Mädchen were...
Like his friends, Fitzgerald caroused freely. But unlike most of them he also produced novels and short stories with passion and vigor-just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance...