Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clad in gay robes and conical straw hats, hard-riding Basuto tribesmen last week poured into their hilltop capital of Maseru. The joyous occasion: the royal marriage in the Roman Catholic cathedral of Our Lady of Victories between a serene young student named Tabitha Masentle Mojela and Basutoland's Paramount Chief, Oxford-educated Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, who ascended the throne of the British protectorate in 1960 after a tough fight with his stepmother, who had acted as regent for 20 years...
NEAR the farming village of Shra, 200 miles north of Damascus, thousands of Syrian fellahin crowded onto a dusty field last week for a joyous ceremony: 3,927 men were to receive titles to the land they and their ancestors had always tilled for the enrichment of others. Brightly dressed sword dancers swung their great curved sabers in a fierce ballet. A spare, bearded mullah on the edge of the crowd intoned verses from the Koran. The peasants greeted each statement by Minister of Agrarian Reform Ahmed Abdel Karim with a rhythmic chant: "Down with feudalism! Down with imperialism! Down...
...signs, the cars alternately sped along at 60 m.p.h. or were caught in bumper-to-bumper jams as the screaming populace boiled forward to see its new leader. Finally the caravan reached the prefecture of the Provisional Government, overlooking Algiers' waterfront; carried inside on the shoulders of his joyous followers, Ben Bella met and shook hands with Algeria's vanquished and all-but-forgotten Premier, Benyoussef Benkheddathus−ending, at least for the moment, the new country's first major crisis...
...reserved for bookmakers who do not pay their protection money.) A random sampling produces: "Fresh from Europe, the American scene held about as much charm for me as a dead rattlesnake lying in the deep freeze. What can possibly give us the idea that we are a vital, lusty, joyous, creative people?'' "The American is an unsocial being who seems to find enjoyment only in the bottle or with his machines." "It is particularly refreshing to observe the remarkable behavior and apparent contentment, often with little, of French children. Wise beyond their years, they seem no less joyous...
...exclaims, "You have nothing to lose but your brains--I mean chains." His threat is mitigated when it is revealed that he is really the father of Grendel, i.e. Grendel's mother's ("mother of Grendel, an anti-social type") husband. Charisma and Beowulf then sing of the joyous life they will have together as the defeated Mathiez writhes in the corner: "We'll just be petty bourgeoisl...