Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their cheering were perceptible as much by the skin of the face and the soles of the feet as by the ears. Italy won when the elusive Roberto Bettega slipped away from the defense and scored the game's only goal. It did not matter. The joyous uproar continued, out of the ballpark and into the night. For hours, the capital city's Avenida Corrientes reverberated with sound. Rhythmic horn honking blared from miles of jammed-up and flatulating cars and trucks, inside of and on top of which roosted thousands of happy Argentines, waving their white...
...situation and would have been a source of regret for years to come. The continual support I received from family, friends and teammates helped me endure the cold days on the practice fields and sidelines, but the ultimate support came from friends and family in Nigeria who were joyous to learn that I just attempted to play "American football...
Schmautz took a pass from Gregg Sheppard on the left side, turned quickly on a diving Larry Robinson, then banged the 25-footer past Dryden to set off a joyous celebration...
Even in the Soviet Union, Easter is one of the year's most joyous days. By Orthodoxy's ancient Julian calendar, this year's feast comes the day before May Day. The long cruel grip of a northern winter is broken, and this week 30 million Orthodox are fasting in anticipation of the holy day, painting gaily decorated eggs and baking rum-laced cakes to be blessed at Easter Eve services. Crowds, including thousands of atheists, will flock to watch the predawn procession of crosses and icons around Moscow's Yelokhovsky Cathedral, where Young Communists...
...fury they produce. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear were experts at such arguments: Is too much energy being wasted transporting ham and bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea how to get rid of the box. But until that terminus he offers the intriguing notion of a society without aerials, reruns...