Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fever had Los Angeles in a sweat. To the joy of some and the rage of many, the city council last week voted to allow drilling in some residential areas. With Mayor Norris Poulson's approval yet to come, the council backed dezoning of the city-owned Rancho golf course and the private Hillcrest Country Club near Beverly Hills. Thundered the Los Angeles Examiner, decrying the eagerness of adjacent citizens to lease their lawns and barbecue pits: "Is spoliation of these homes to be forced upon the owners for peanuts per lot in return...
...Cordiner pay-revision plan for the Army [May 20] or no Cordiner plan; it will still be the joy of the top sergeant (IQ: 50) to give the dirtiest jobs to the man with the most education...
When the X-13 returned from a brief horizontal joy ride, it slowed down and tilted its nose upward. Then it backed down toward earth, standing on its column of gas, and walked steadily toward the platform. A man was waiting at the top of the platform to help Pilot Girard during the critical operation of engaging the hook. He watched the X-13 approach until its hook was above the cable. Then he pressed a control that raised the supporting arms, slipping the cable under the hook. That was the end of the flight. The platform was cranked down...
...also resulted in some notable crusades by the Union Leader. In 1955, for example, when lawmakers opposed an increase of the state's share of pari-mutuel receipts, the paper printed the names of 42 legislators who were on a racetrack payroll. But Loeb himself derives his keenest joy from an editorial page that ranges acrimoniously from "gulliberals" to Detroit ("overgrown, overdecorated, over-expensive U.S. cars"). "Newspapers," he maintains, "should be run for fun. not profit." From the Manchester Union Leader Publisher Loeb gets both...
Despite the joy most Poles take in their religion, the country has been sliding down toward the doldrums, after the first few heady months following the October coup. The main trouble is economic; as one worker put it last week: "Gomulka kicked out the Russians and brought back the church. That is very good. Now I am waiting to see if we will eat better...