Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motives more injurious than the search for profit; and [businessmen] did not need slave camps to people their frontiers. If this country is 'basely materialistic' in its 'philosophy,' then let it be noted that such materialism is the cause of less suffering and more joy than most idealisms which history records...
...Those bells were my joy and sadness. When it was a repique [a joyous peal of bells for processions and fiestas] I felt like running down the stairs to join the crowd in the square and be happy with them. But when I went up with my husband to toll the big one for someone's death, I always wondered who had died and thought of the life to come. And then-think of it; -I had to toll the big bell for my own husband...
...Doing It Myself." What Booth has got includes four tractors, a corn chopper, a self-propelled combine, plenty of discs, plows, wheat drills, and cultivators, a 1946 Chevrolet and-his pride & joy-a 1948 Cadillac. Said Mrs. Booth: "It's a four-door sedan with white sidewall tires. I wanted the Fleetwood, but it wouldn't go in the garage." Booth apologized for the farm buildings: "Need painting. Haven't been able to buy the quality of paint we wanted. But I'll paint this summer. I'll save 50% doing it myself...
Commerce has jurisdiction over nine watertight bureaus: Patents, Census, Foreign & Domestic Commerce, Coast & Geodetic Survey, Weather, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Public Roads, Standards, and Inland Waterways, which runs the world's biggest barge line (the Federal Barge Lines on the Mississippi and its tributaries) and whose pride and joy is the new towboat, Harry Truman...
...remote, jungle-hemmed beach of Tortuguero, south of Veracruz, a handful of Mexican and U.S. oil drillers slapped each other's backs and shouted with hoarse joy. A few weeks ago, boring at an angle to a depth of 6,000 feet under the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, their rig had tapped a pool of rich green-black petroleum. Last week Tortuguero No. 1 surged into test production at a steady 500 barrels...