Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spectacular Rogue: Gaston B. Means, by Edwin P. Hoyt. He could have lived in splendor on the take from just one of his spectacular swindles, but for Means the joy of a lie was in living it, so he conned the rich (mostly women) the slow, dramatic...
...been eight years since a Yank vaulted the net at Wimbledon, and Texas' Chuck McKinley, 22, could be pardoned if his form looked a little rusty. But he cleared it with inches to spare. Then, with a wild whoop of joy, he hippety-hopped up to the royal box, where Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent, handed him the silver trophy that goes to the winner of the All-England tennis championships - the world's most important tennis tournament...
...manage these things in the depth of the country?" That French Feeling. But the best (and bestselling) American cookbooks are still the basics-The Joy of Cooking, Good Housekeeping, The Boston Cooking School Cookbook (Fannie Farmer), Better Homes & Gardens and Betty Crocker, all of which have sold in the hundreds of thousands. Constantly updated (Betty Crocker and Good Housekeeping both have fresh versions coming out in the autumn), all contain material on high-altitude baking, regional dishes, convenient short cuts, new electrical appliances and so forth, making most specialty books conspicuous superfluities...
Last week Clint Murchison Jr. holed up on the brothers' private Bahaman island and took the radiophone off the hook; John flew off to Paris. Other Texas financiers, who had stomped their boots in joy when the brothers toppled an Eastern millionaire, were downhearted. More than glory had disappeared with the Murchisons' defeat. A decline in the price of Alleghany from a 1961 high of $15.50 per share to $10.63 at present, and their guarantees to make up any losses suffered by big proxy allies, had cost the Murchisons an estimated $18 million...
...concluding distich, Lear dies a happy man. (His words here are not madness; despite the textbooks, Lear has recovered from his dementia before his death.) Suddenly he sees something on her lips, and he has a final moment of beatific joy. "Pour on; I will endure," he had yelled at the storm. Like Job, he does endure; and like Job he gets his reward, if only for an instant. He waited; and Godot has arrived...