Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MILWAUKEE, Wise.- The mother of a baby girl, a woman whose birth control pills turned out to be cold tablets, had her $250,000 lawsuit dismissed by a judge who said the result was "a joyous event...
Following the meal, cups of tea and some cigarettes, we went to the schoolroom. For several hours we immersed ourselves in loud and joyous music. People from the trailers on the hill drifted in and sat down to listen. At half past twelve. Donovan said it was time to quit because the next day was Sunday. We dritted back to our various beds...
...students had to go through the gradual reconciliation this girl did. For some the return was swift and joyous. One boy said, "I walked up the steps to my room and pushed open the doors. All my roommates were there slapping me on the back and saying. 'Hey, man.' Right away. Before, the people I had known in high school were much realer to me than my college friends. But from then on, the characters in my dreams were the same people I saw walking around in the daytime...
...short-stroke engine remains untouched, but its exhaust is channeled through complicated "extractors" or straight pipe "resonators" that make the humble bug sound like a snarling Ferrari or thundering Offenhauser. A less expensive gimmick is to wire a bottle of water under the exhaust pipe, where it produces a joyous shriek as exhaust blasts across its top. Thus, cars that leave the factories merely muttering turn up on the roads making more noise than factory machinery...
...will be a joyous occasion. Arts and Letters will give the untutored strict instruction on the study of running. Any one who decides to support one of the pupils rather than the teacher should be warned that he will most likely find his pockets suddenly and unceremoniously emptied...