Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implanted in us a yearning for everlasting life. To pretend that we do not have this longing is as great a self-deception as to act uninterested when the dinner bell rings. Whether our lives are happy or unhappy, or-like most lives-a confusing blend of dullness and joy and anguish, within each of us is the hunger for a kind of life so radiant and intense that the grave will not be able to frustrate it. God has created us this way; He has built the desire into our very being." -The Rev. Chad Walsh in Episcopal Churchnews...
...Wish Me Joy." From then on, they saw each other less often. But their cautiously intimate letters, sometimes carried by the ever-faithful Trumbull, crossed the Channel scores of times. In one of them, Maria finally asked for a picture-a miniature "coppy" that Trumbull was to make of a portrait he had don6 in Paris. At the time, Maria was miffed at Jefferson for not having answered her last letter. "She is angry," Trumbull jokingly told Jefferson, "yet she teases me every day for a copy of your little portrait-that she may scold it, no doubt...
Maria got her portrait ("Wish me joy," she wrote, "for I possess your Picture"), and it was about all she had to remember Jefferson by. He went back to the U.S., and she founded a school for girls in Lodi, Italy...
...joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small...
...only remaining member of the original five-man delegation that began the truce conferences last July is Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, the doughty commander of U.S. naval forces in the Far East and chief of the allied truce team at Panmunjom. The other four have long since been transferred elsewhere. Last week the Navy announced that, sometime next summer, whether there is a truce or not, the admiral will come home to be superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis...