Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also designing a radical, prismatic-shaped office building in Washington with windows that have what Gropius calls "eyebrows"-steel and glass louvers that push out horizontally as protection against the summer sun. And there are plans for modern housing developments that make Gropius' eyes light up with joy. His team of architects is designing two of them near Boston, one of 30 houses...
...those who have sat enthralled with Lehrer's personal appearances, the record will serve as a pleasant reminder of past joys. And his new fans find restraint hard to maintain, because Lehrer is as good on wax as in the flesh. As does his lovable Old Dope Peddler, he continues, "spreading joy wherever he goes...
Crowds jammed Amman's King Feisal Avenue six deep last week. Watching from rooftops, veiled women set up the piercing wail of joy called Zaghareed. The object of the outcry, a smiling, slender lad in a slow-moving, blue 1953 Lincoln convertible surrounded by armored cars, replied again & again with precise Sandhurst salutes. The procession moved on to Jordan's Parliament building. There, dressed in the gilded blue uniform of an Arab Legion general, the lad rose from a satin throne and said in a loud, clear voice: "I swear by God to abide by the constitution...
...African sun" (where he had been commander of a volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart, and two years later they separated. In the 1916 Easter Rebellion, the British captured John MacBride and shot...
...facts in your article are for the most part true but don't you think, on second thought perhaps, that it is a warped conclusion and a bit anti-Zionist to say that Israel is celebrating Passover this year in "... a land of little joy...