Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their countries together and limit both Western and Communist encroachments in the area." The Parliament of Arab Morocco, where the U.S. has air bases, "forcibly denounced" the intervention. But Premier Abdullah Khalil of the Sudan, who is under constant pressure as Nasser's southern neighbor, expressed his "overwhelming joy," described the landings as "the turning point towards stability." And in Turkey the relief at the U.S. action was so unrestrained that Turkey's Baghdad Pact partners, Iran and Pakistan, had to appeal for caution. Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu wanted to march into Iraq, where some...
Still in his 20s and still living in Poland, Marek Hlasko writes the kind of story that the regime must find irritatingly lacking in proletarian joy. The young workmen in The Most Sacred Words of Our Life are indifferent to their jobs, cynical and joyless. The young hero is lyrically awakened by a beautiful love affair with a tender and passionate girl. He leaves her in the morning to rush to work, and discovers that three of his fellow workmen have had the same girl, that she has spoken to them the identical, sacred words of endearment...
...usual, it is a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction. She knows how to say "fortyoon" instead of "fawchoon," and how to put the accent on the first syllable of "despicable," where it belongs...
...matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death." There is the additional difficulty of specific references to fire. "To many it appears that for God to plunge the soul into a sea of fire [suggests] a vindictive God who takes joy in torturing His enemies...
...sermon was concluded with Pusey's hope that the total experience of the Seniors at Harvard would help them realize the "enlightenment and joy of belief...