Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hungry nations of the Western Hemisphere, a new find even remotely like Venezuela's bountiful Lake Maracaibo area would be the joyous national equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. Last week, in nine countries within 1,500 miles of Maracaibo, the quest for black gold was on more earnestly than ever before, with U.S. oilmen leading the pack. In rain forests and cane fields, dozens of drilling rigs probed for the telltale "show...
BEYOND THE AEGEAN, by llias Ve-nezis. The lyrical recollection of a Greek boy's pre-World War I childhood in Anatolia. One of the year's most attractive novels-a remem brance of things past, explored with joyous wonder, grace and dignity...
...there stretch enchanting vistas of sacramental beauty like the glory of a garden or the shimmer of moonlight on a silvery sea . . ." Last week Reverend Harris' picture and words were splashed all over U.S. newspapers in full-page ads bringing readers "An Important Message ... in the Public Interest." Joyous sponsors of the ads: "The 11,000 members of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association...
...Joyous Daybreak." The next night 10,000 Negroes jammed two of Montgomery's largest churches and adjacent streets to savor their triumph. Appearing before each group in turn was the spiritual architect of that triumph, the Rev. Dr. King. He was too wise to be triumphant; he read to each congregation a statement that should loom large in the Negro's long, patient fight for equality...
...kept going with the faith that in our struggle we had cosmic companionship, and that, at bottom, the universe is on the side of justice. [The Supreme Court's decision was] a revelation of the eternal validity of this faith, [and] came to all of us as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of enforced segregation in public transportation...