Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joy for the sound of Neil McElroy. The Tide gets rolled back, and the show is on the road...
Stomma appealed to Wladyslaw Gomulka's ruling Communists "to resurrect the energies of the nation" by trusting it with a "margin of freedom." To restore the "aim of life and joy in living" that might allay the "bitterness, nihilism, hooliganism and drunkenness" in the land, said Stomma, "confidence must be mutual-of people in authorities, but even more so of the authorities in the people. Only in this way can Polish society be united...
Within a fortnight, the joy gave way to anguish. The Gottsdanker and Phipps youngsters, like 77 others inoculated with vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories, came down with polio.* Live virus was found in six (of 17) Cutter vaccine batches. The U.S. Public Health Service reached the "presumption" that the cause of the disease in people getting shots from the six batches was the vaccine itself, promptly tightened up its previously hit-or-miss testing methods to make sure that no more live virus got through...
...beauty salons, ladies have their hair washed with two Procter & Gamble shampoos-one for each side of the head-to find out which they prefer, and why. Advertising studies tell Procter & Gamble whether Tide will sell better if it is white, blue or green, whether another ounce of Joy for the same price will pay for itself in increased sales. As P. & G.'s advertising chief, Neil McElroy was death on guessing about such matters. "I don't want opinions," he said repeatedly. "I want facts...
Little girls are a joy and grown girls can exercise intolerable charms, but the girl just moving into her teens is often a hidden mystery to all but her peers. What makes "Helena Morley" a very special girl is the fact that she told not only all, or nearly all. to her diary, but published the diary in full. Following the day-by-day account, the reader will make a friend and also cross a threshold toward a special kind of understanding...