Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moneysaving troop cuts aroused neither joy nor grave misgivings among service planners. U.S. muscle, they agreed, will suffer little. The Army will come down from 1,000,000 to 950,000, but will keep its 17 authorized divisions; the Navy, from 875,000 (including 200,000 Marines) to 850,000, will maintain combat units at authorized size, keep the Marines at three divisions; the Air Force, from 925,000 to 900,000, will make no cuts in combat outfits. One probable overall effect: a further cutback in draft calls...
...popularity will keep him there. No more beguiling or wilier demagogue has come down the pike in Soviet Communism's 40 years in power. "In our agriculture, Comrades," he told a Czech audience last week, "we see a great progress at present. Frankly speaking, we sometimes experience childish joy in it. Some workers in our trade organization sounded an alarm, saying there are no freezing plants to store our pork. I told them that we would easily solve this situation, which they chose to call a disaster. There is one easy way out-reduce prices, and then everyone will...
...acknowledges that the Russian economic experts-at whom he always jeers-are agreed that his plans for equaling the U.S. in food production in a couple of seasons are impossible. His brother Stalinists-Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich-may have been united only in stern Marxist suspicion of the "childish joy" of his impulses. On the record, he is as committed to slavery, to crushing out trouble in the satellites, and to enmity of the West, as any Communist...
...overwhelmed with joy. I can say only thanks," said Nelson Higgins, tears streaming down his cheeks. Just before the benediction, an elderly white woman stood up and said: "God bless you, Mr. Higgins." Later. Pastor Higgins announced that he had received three applications for membership, and asked if there were more. Nine people came forward. (By week's end, membership had reached 16, including four whites.) To gather up the offering, pots and pans from the parsonage were pressed into service to supplement the four collection plates. In all, the throng contributed...
Apples and Eclairs. "Overflowing with life and activity," wrote one of her secretaries, "she glows with physical joy, hugging to her strong heart every thing that quivers with life, in order to embrace it, crush it, draw the very marrow out of it . . . In . . . intervals passive, idling and greedy, she munches apples . . . disembowels chocolate eclairs arranges the fire . . lights some sticks of what she calls 'smell-good.' These flames and the smoke intoxicate...