Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venezuelans, whose money flows as generously as the joy-juice in their wineskins, found Dominguin easily worth his fancy fee in the opening fight. His most brilliant kill was his second. He seated himself on the ringside barrier, perilously immobile, while the big bull from Mexico's famed San Mateo ranch charged three times. His gold-and-pink "suit of lights" flashing, Dominguin followed up with a series of classic passes in mid-ring and killed the bull with a single, perfect thrust, winning both ears and the tail. By the time the killer of more than...
Venezuela was a symbolic place for Dominguin's comeback; it was a bad horn wound there three years ago that had led to his retirement. "I've lost the joy of fighting," he explained at the time. A millionaire twice over, he traded the suit of lights for blue jeans and a checkered shirt on his 6,000-acre New Castilian estate, with its 20-room, tower-topped house, marble statue of himself, and an antique bed for a restless bullfighter-16 ft. by 7 ft. Over the gate he posted his new motto: "Do nothing...
...COMMUNISTS NEGOTIATE ( 178 pp.) ? Admiral C. Turner Joy, U.S.N. (Ret.) ? Mocmillan...
...Kaesong and Panmunjom that is just what happened. It fell to Admiral C. Turner Joy, U.S.N. , as chief of the United Nations Command Delegation to the Korean Armistice Conference, to navigate this viscid ocean of incomprehension...
...love America more than any other country in the world, and. exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." In that criticism, he has not spared his own race, ranging from the failure of Negro novelists to capture in print "any of the joy of Louis Armstrong or the really bottomless, ironic and mocking sadness of Billie Holliday" to the viciousness of anti-Semitism in Harlem. As for the future of black-white relations in the U.S.: "One's only got to look back to see that, though we certainly have cause for shame...