Word: joyful
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...extraordinary moment the atmosphere was transformed. Anger seeped from the tent into the cool winter air as the crowd sang the black anthem God Bless Africa. They sang first in Zulu and then in Sotho. They sang with joy, and they sang with conviction. Speaking in English, Tutu told the gathering that he had asked the government, "Please allow us to mourn, to bury our dead with dignity, to share the burden of our sorrow. Do not rub salt in our wounds ... I appeal to you because we are already hurt, already down. We are humans, not animals. When...
...baseman of the Cincinnati Reds, his hometown and original team. "Maybe it's because everyone knows how much money we make, but today's young players hold something in. Just on the field and in public. It comes out in the clubhouse, when only the other players can see." Joy is the word. "Twenty-five years ago, they gave me $400 a month to play baseball. I couldn't believe it. For being Rookie of the Year in 1963, I got a $5,000 raise that brought me up to $12,500. My last season in Philadelphia [1983], I made...
...trickled in from the final round. One greeted the other who hailed the next. "Come look at this, the kid's got a chance." The room thickened with old golfers. Billy Casper ambled by. "Billy, Billy, the kid's going to win it." When he did, they shouted for joy, stood there plainly moved for a moment. All of these are only games, but on the bottom line, money is not what moves us. --By Tom Callahan
...aware sentient being I knew myself to be ... As they slowly built the igloo up on an ever-decreasing circumference, I watched with a sense of the anti-material oppositeness of the thing ... Without so much as the caesura of a drawn breath I was first shouting in joy, then screaming in shock ... I had discovered in myself the double personality engendered by school: the good attentive boy in class, the raucous, unsprung Dionysian in the schoolyard at recess...
...approaching holiday season holds little joy for thousands of employees and executives in the semiconductor industry. This year major makers of the tiny electronic wafers, which are the raw material of the high-technology age and run everything from watches to supercomputers, are playing the role of the Grinch. They will shut their doors for up to three weeks next month, a time when workers normally expect year-end bonuses and office celebrations. The painful closings are only the latest steps that chip producers are taking to cope with a slump that has crippled the once booming high-tech industry...