Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died out and the islands were later resettled with African slaves from the West Indies, the heritage of tongue and religion somehow endured. The 6,000-odd black-skinned, English-speaking islanders who live there now are 80% Baptist, 15% Seventh-Day Adventist, 5% Roman Catholic. Their pride and joy are their schools; literacy is 100%, compared to the Colombian mainland average of 56%. From the islands last week came jolting news that a Spanish priest, named as Inspector of Education for the islands by the Colombian government, had shut down the Protestant schools...
...hits two notes. Then I say, 'In a competition, you got to use all your weapons.' So I starts to play wit my nose. So Liberace comes over and accidentally touches the piano-key lid and it comes down on my nose." Sadly stroking his bandaged pride & joy, Durante murmured: "A mortifyin' experience...
...Johnson is still healthy and hardworking. He sounded wistful about quitting the Senate, but Fern Johnson, squeezing his hand, was "just wild with joy." Republicans were delighted, too. Johnson's Senate seat, previously a Democratic cinch, is now open to capture...
...four: the overnight favorite (7-1), Conneyburrow, injured in a fall and destroyed; Dominick's Bar, which dropped dead at the second fence; Legal Joy, which broke its neck at the 13th fence; and Paris-New York, which broke a leg and was destroyed...
Bored with popularity polls, the New York Herald Tribune's records editor invited readers to submit lists of the five most boring "acknowledged masterpieces" on records. Readers responded with "enthusiasm and unconcealed joy," reported Editor Herbert Kupferberg. Their "most tedious ten": 1) Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, 2) Franck's Symphony in D Minor, 3) Ravel's Bolero, 4) Wagner's Parsifal, 5) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, 6) Brahms's Requiem, 7) Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 ("New World"). 8) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), 9) Wagner's Tristan...