Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behalf of myself and the 650 million people of India, I wish to express my joy that the Nobel Peace Prize for 1979 has been awarded to Mother Teresa. No other person deserves it more...
...confoozin' antics were eventually syndicated in 900 newspapers with an estimated readership of 90 million. Li'l Abner inspired a Broadway musical, two movies and a television show, earned Capp $500,000 a year at its peak and introduced Sadie Hawkins Day, the Schmoo, Kickapoo Joy Juice and Lower Slobbovia into the American lexicon...
...Cambridge liberals should be smiling, but they're not. There is very little joy up and down Brattle St. or on the backroads of mid-Cambridge, where city progressives like to hang out. All that money, all that campaigning and all those liberal votes merely maintained the same number of progressives on the council. "No more, no less, we just tread water like every year," a disgusted CCA adherent complained as the final vote totals came in. And that means two more years of dependence on independent Alfred E. Vellucci for the fifth vote necessary to pass liberal programs, notably...
...that matter, Hagman does everything just right, and the chief joy of Dallas is watching him play an overstuffed lago in a stetson hat. Mean? There ain't nobody meaner than this dude. But Hagman plays him with such obvious zest and charm that he is impossible to dislike. Why was lago so evil? Hagman knows: it's fun being bad. And that is the secret the creators of Dallas have discovered too. Audiences applaud the good guys, but they watch the bad ones, hour after hour after hour. -Gerald Clarke
...Willie, say goodbye to America." With those words, Willie Mays ended his active baseball career six years ago. For 20 seasons with the Giants and two with the Mets, he had played the game with consummate skill and boundless joy. Under a $50,000-a-year contract with the Mets, Mays remained a goodwill ambassador for baseball, making publicity appearances and occasionally tutoring young hitters in the Mets' farm system. This summer he was inducted into the Hall of Fame after receiving more votes for baseball's highest honor than any other player in history...