Word: joyous
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...director of the commercial asked Chung to ride a bicycle while greeting friends, as if she were making an idyllic and joyous trip from her dorm to class. (For her part, Chung prefers taking the shuttle from Cabot...
...instead of being mobbed by joyous teammates after burying the puck in the net, Ruggiero received nothing but Holst’s retaliatory shove...
...Saddam's forces have adopted a radically different strategy from what U.S. war planners had apparently anticipated. Rather than ceding the Shiite south and hunkering down for a showdown in Baghdad, Iraqi irregulars continue to put up tough fight across southern and central Iraq. The expected popular uprising and joyous welcome of coalition forces in Basra has not yet materialized, and Iraqi commanders have committed forces to slow the coalition advance in towns along the Euphrates, such as Nasiriyah, Najaf, Kerbala and Samawha, further south than expected. Iraqi political militias organized on guerrilla lines have put up stubborn, often suicidal...
...Journalists who have crossed the border from Kuwait into southern Iraq have found that local people are far from the joyous celebrating crowds that the U.S. and UK miltary had hoped for. Many are surly or resentful of the foreign military presence, and impatient to get humanitarian aid that still hasn't arrived...
Hovering over the joyous atmosphere, however, was the spectre of the Holocaust. Just like the ceremonial breaking of a glass at a Jewish wedding, the Holocaust was a constant reminder to the town’s inhabitants that “the world is sad and needs healing...