Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professional smugglers themselves, a courageous and self-reliant lot who often hold passports from non-NATO nations, regard such discussions as academic. They know the joy they stir. Holland's "Brother Andrew" of Open Doors, the man who pioneered smuggling in 1957, tells of running a vanload of Russian-language Bibles into Czechoslovakia in 1968, surrounded by invading Soviet tanks. Later he got a letter from a mother in the Soviet Union: "Thank you for giving our son a Bible when he was occupying Czechoslovakia...
...Joy E. Hecht '80, another staff member, said yesterday she is pleased with the first issue even though it focuses more on political issues, such as nuclear power, than the staff had intended...
...when the Miracle of 1969 arrived, and the New York Mets won the World Series, he, like the team and like the city, viewed it with the same combination of astonishment, wonder, and joy. And in the post semi-miracle-of-1973 malaise, he oozed the frustration, if not the anger, of every...
...That night we drove into Manhattan. I can assure you I never saw such joy in a big city. I can look back at one day when there was joy and happiness. I don't think you coulda got mugged in the subway that day," Nelson said...
...poise all derive in large part from his fierce pride. For him, losing, especially losing when you don't fence your best, is humiliating. He describes fencing as "more crushing from an ego point of view" than most sports and says. "When someone clobbers you, you have the joy of groping around on the strip with a pair of tweezers to pick up your...