Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd beamed with joy at the prospect of a victory he once thought he might never live to see. Democrat Byrd has long waged unremitting war against the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the huge Government lending agency set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932 as a depression emergency measure and expanded in function and influence during the New and Fair Deals. For years Byrd's fight was a solitary one. Last week, however, Harry Byrd was sublimely confident that the 83rd Congress would ultimately pass his newly introduced bill to wipe...
...inevitable and just. In this book about Harvard men, vintage '45, there are traces of his father's measured prose, the briskness of Hemingway, and the flamboyance of some Fitzgerald. In style and content, the hero's speech at his engagement party, rating his happiness second only to his joy on the day he scored two touchdowns against Middle sex, is almost a parody of Marquand Sr.'s Bojo Brown...
...Historian Prawdin describes him, Genghis Khan was a ruthless but not sadistic man-a tough old nomad who did not hesitate to destroy his enemies, yet who had no interest in pointless cruelties. Conquest was in his blood; he was never happy except on the march. "The greatest joy a man can know," he said, "is to conquer his enemies and drive them before...
Cousteau describes one attack in detail: "My mind was jammed with conceited thoughts and antic joy. I struggled to fix my brain on reality, to attempt to name the color of the sea about me ... navy blue, aquamarine and Prussian blue. The debate would not resolve. The sole fact I could grasp was that there was no roof and no floor in the blue room...
There is no joy in Lyndonville for Crimson skiers preparing to enter the season's most important competition. The team's best four-event man, Neil Dixon '55, is sidelined with a dislocated shoulder suffered in practice last weekend...