Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women alike were fed one-twentieth of a Japanese soldier's ration, deprived of medical supplies, forced to do back-breaking work all day, slapped, kicked, often beaten. All wept for joy when liberated, ravenously gobbled up the Army's K ration - the best food they had tasted in more than a year...
...flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la. . . . However welcome the sprinkling of dandelions across the Business School vista may be, the vernal efforts of Dame Nature are not alone responsible for the jubilation of the Junior Ensigns. Theirs is the joy of accomplishment which the combined connivance of the Management graders and the disbursing faculty has not been able to quench. The end of the second term is in sight, and with this consummation comes that added element of freedom which has been a shining beacon amid the trials and terrors of John A. Hancock, Ensign, S.C., (symbol number...
...mention the work of 25-year-old Corporal George Sylvester Viereck Jr., who stood in the mouth of the cave blasting away with his Garand rifle at oncoming Nazis while an artillery barrage thundered down on them from the rear. Said Corporal Viereck: "We had a feeling of animal joy as that stuff came down on the surrounding Germans...
...bouncing boy," the nurse told Mrs. Harry James Hardwig when she came out of the anesthetic. So proud Mr. & Mrs. Hardwig sent out cards to all their Los Angeles friends, announcing the birth of a son, Richard Allen Hardwig: "Oh joy, it's a boy!" They also paid to have the baby circumcised...
...Hope, radio's far-traveling, top-ranking comedian, received a special citation as a George Foster Peabody radio-award winner for 1943: "The joy and strengthened morale which he has given to the men and women of the armed forces cannot be measured." Other Peabody winners...