Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ABSIE's pride & joy were its musical programs, as American as pie à la mode. According to captured Germans, the favorite Allied program heard in Germany was Music for the Wehrmacht, which featured songs by topnotch performers like Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore. Beaming almost a third of its air time to Germany, ABSIE had solid assurance that its efforts were not wasted. The Nazis tried jamming ABSIE broadcasts, answered ABSIE's news comments on their own stations...
...time of paradox: the nation, set for its eighth year of high food production, would nevertheless face many a month of food shortages. There was joy in the homes of returned soldiers; there was grief for those still dying in the Pacific...
...Chicago Daily News's ballyhoo on its $75,000 pride & joy: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's late son-in-law. Last week 70 U.S. papers, and 25 papers abroad, began printing it. Perhaps no document could have lived up to such advance billing; the Ciano diary did not even come close...
Though the people loved and knew by heart scores of the poet's stanzas, they were now massed to acclaim the dictator Caesar in a "howl of joy . . . victorious, violent, unbridled, fear-inspiring, magnificent, fawning, the mass worshiping itself in the person...
...people of Cornwall, Q was not only a favorite regional novelist, but also local magistrate, school councilor, alder man, freeman of three Cornish towns onetime mayor of Fowey (rhymes with joy), his birthplace and home. When Q said of Samuel Johnson: "He never saw literature but as a part of life," he was stating his own, classically inspired ideal of the author as citizen...