Word: joyfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invective. Between such bits the Prime Minister tucked in not only an account of U.S. relations with Japan and what he and the President meant by their eight points, but for sheer joy of it he tore Hitler to pieces...
...months it built 7,063 of the 32,681 houses assigned it. (In the same period the Navy, building its own emergency houses, nearly finished a $50 million, 15,352-unit program.) Prodded for such failures, FWAdministrator John M. Carmody finally revamped his housing program, and to the noisy joy of the profession, began calling in private architects for help...
There were other exceptions, but the exceptions did not invalidate the general rule that the great bulk of civilian soldiers had little pride of outfit, little joy of service. Like many soldiers now canonized as heroes-men who fought in the Revolution and the Civil War-they wanted to go home. Prime reasons...
These patrols were not of great military consequence; they were of less importance than most petty skirmishes on the Russian Front. But, devised in the face of appalling living conditions, executed with a certain joy, they-and Tobruk itself-were evidence of a will to survive, testimony that the besieged Australians felt they were still top dog over their besiegers...
...Italian troops, harried from position to position by the British all spring, were a mixed lot to look at. There were aviators who had not felt a joy stick for months, sailors who had swum ashore from battered battlecraft, Alpini swinging their mountain picks, Bersaglieri with un-cocky cock feathers on their steel helmets...