Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frank moments Kono admits that he is about fed up with weight lifting: "At the start it was joy. Now it's an ordeal. I'm a special target of the Russians. I'm always under pressure to defend a title or break a record." In fact, Kono is talking of quitting after this year. To ease his ennui in the meantime, he bends nails with his fingers, drives spikes into boards with his fist, blows up hot-water bottles until they burst, and looks forward to the Olympics-when he will have the chance to become...
...boys' and 30 men's basketball teams, 77 football teams, all coached by volunteers, while other activities range through drama, dance and charm classes, bowling, dog-training classes, "Slim 'n' Trim" groups, roller skating, photography, woodcraft, and lessons in how to ice a cake. Says Joy Hudson, 35, mother of three children: "There is a problem of getting too busy. Some weeks my husband is home only two nights a week. My little boy often says, 'Anybody going to be home tonight?' " Suburbia, echoed Exurbanite Adlai Stevenson (Libertyville, Ill.) recently, is producing "a strange...
Born Free, by Joy Adamson. The author, drawing on her own experience as the wife of a Kenya gamekeeper, gives a detailed and fascinating solution to one of the least urgent problems of the century -how to bring up a lion...
...animals and, as far as possible, that the animals did not kill the men. Elsa was one of a litter of three cubs orphaned when George Adamson shot their mother. As a result, George felt in honor bound to take the cubs home to Isiolo. Kenya, to join Joy...
...this stage, the book becomes Joy Adamson's treatise on How to Bring Up a Cat, with problems familiar to those who keep one, but lifted to the heroic plane (by the Hegelian principle that quantity turns into quality: if you get enough of something, it becomes not just more of the same thing, but something else in itself). A selection of Mrs. Adamson's wisdom includes some notable deductions about cats of all sizes...