Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shared Joy. But the fighting did not immediately end. Clandestine radio calls testified to rebel resistance in isolated areas, both in Budapest and the provinces. And after first announcing that resistance was being crushed, Kadar took to the air to complain of continuing opposition "which might even get the upper hand." The weight and power of the Soviet assault indicated the seriousness with which the Kremlin now regarded the situation...
Safety for Capitalists. At a Manhattan luncheon next day, Stevenson relaxed somewhat to tell 600 businessmen (who brought joy to his heart by digging up $30,000 for Democratic campaign coffers) that "the Democratic Party is the best friend American business has." The New Deal, he went on, "made America safe for capitalism [and] made capitalism safe for America." But the Eisenhower Administration cannot meet the challenges of the dawning age of abundance because it "cannot command the confidence of all the groups in our diverse society...
...grief-stricken old man, slumped in a bedside chair in a San Juan hospital room, received word last week that he had won the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. The news brought no glimmer of joy to the white-bearded face of Poet Juan Ramon Jimenez. Honor, fame, and money ($38,633) no longer mattered; his wife of 40 years,"the inspiration for my whole work," as he once called her, was dying of cancer. He stood up and gently patted her hand. Then, reminded that the world expected him to say something for the occasion, he wrote...
Chink. In Dallas, officers of the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard complained to police that prowlers kept entering the division motor compound and taking joy rides in jeeps...
Liberal Arts. In Tucson, Ariz., after he announced the establishment of a driver training course, Superintendent Steve Vukcevich of the Arizona State Industrial School, a reformatory, said he thought inmates should learn how to drive because: "Some of the boys are going to steal automobiles and go joy riding when they are out, no matter what...