Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave her steady work (though she still lives on vitamin shots and fights insomnia), and the chance to sing gave her a new career. Today, when she walks her dog around her modest Encino home, lonely Lola is beginning to think that the world looks good. And her tentative joy is reflected in the intimate warmth of her songs. "I never had the remotest idea anybody would ever ask me to sing, but Columbia did," says she, "and I'm especially grateful for one thing: I don't sound like anybody else...
...hero, is lecturing on English literature. He falls ill, and Nurse Myra ministers to him so angelically that later, after war has broken out, Cassidy feels he must see her again. He skips neutral Ireland to resume his post at Berlin University. Myra shows neither surprise nor joy when Cassidy returns from Ireland to announce his love and troubled decision: to settle and teach in enemy Germany to be near her. She simply sends him to see her father, a physician in forced retirement...
Wall Street's bull showed more concern last week over the coming exchange of visits between President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) than joy in the continued outpouring of record earnings. Some investors in companies with big defense contracts, or in the missile-and space-based electronics industry, dumped their stocks. They felt that any warming in the cold war might bring a cutback in defense orders, even though most Wall Streeters believe that an end to the cold war would be bullish, since it would open the way for a cut in the U.S. budget...
...Tomorrow and So Forth, a male high-school teacher is drawn into an unconscious rivalry with a bright boy in the class over the prettiest girl. When the teacher intercepts a soppy note written by the girl saying that she loves him, he is touched and elated. His joy is short-lived. It turns out that the bright boy has coached the girl to guy all the male teachers with the same note. Friends from Philadelphia gives a self-made man with culture gnawing at his pride the chance to score off his Ivy elitenik neighbors with a bottle...
...joy, The speed of a swallow, the grace...