Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thanksgiving, viewers could spend hours watching what seemed the same parade marching endlessly through the streets of Manhattan, Philadelphia and Detroit, while a variety of announcers mimicked each other's intonations of synthetic joy at the sight of inflated balloon-figures, lavish floats loaded with pretty girls baring all their teeth, and determinedly jolly Santa Clauses. Just about every news show on the air scored a mass Thanksgiving Day scoop by showing some 200 banqueting vegetarians in Manhattan eating soybean roast instead of turkey and trimmings...
...most Crimson teams success is measured in terms of an undefeated season, an Ivy League championship, or a Big Three title. But for the long frustrated Harvard basketball fan a won-lost record anywhere in the vicinity of .500 will bring unexpected joy...
...revealed the distance the father of the Reformation had come -and the end he hoped to attain. "As a young man I hated this verse for I did not hear with pleasure that God had to be feared . . . I did not know that fear had to be mixed with joy or hope . . . We who are Christians are not entirely fearful or entirely happy. Joy is joined with fear, hope with dread, laughter with tears, so that we may believe that we shall then at last be perfectly joyous, when we have put away this flesh . . . To fear...
...Joy on the Catwalks. From the time of the laying of the first stone in 1163 to his death 33 years later, Sully lived to see the cathedral largely completed. As if through the aging prelate's prismatic...
Author Temko captures the sense of communal effort and joy...