Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, the delegates gave more joyous emotions full rein, happily bouncing two beach balls high in the colorful hall while awaiting the nominees. Fritz Mondale, normally a reserved, if witty, man, shook off the nervousness apparent at a morning press conference in which Carter had revealed his choice, and delivered a punchy, shouting speech...
...next morning, a red, white and blue Greyhound bus escorted by two highway patrol cars wheeled into Chowchilla with the 26 weary pupils and their driver. A couple of hundred joyous parents, friends and reporters greeted them with cheers, whistles and applause. Meanwhile, the police issued bulletins for three white males traveling in two vans...
This is most unlikely, since the average yearly temperature of the Seychelles is 84° F. Still, the 60,000 inhabitants of this 92-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean were surely entitled to a bit of joyous befuddlement as their independence festivities began last week. Celebrating their break from Britain, the Seychellois danced nonstop in the flag-bedecked streets, flocked to free plays, movies, bicycle races, soccer, basketball and hockey matches, and elected a Miss Seychelles. When the Union Jack is hauled down from a mast in Victoria Stadium this week and replaced by the new red, white...
...Fourth of July weekend is here--the deal is about to go down, and the engines of the Bicentennial industries wind tighter and tighter stretching that last bumpersticker, until the moment we've all waited 200 years for (or even since March) arrives amid fireworks and joyous music...
...National Chairman Robert Strauss was more than enthusiastic. He thanked the platform writers for making a "dramatic and magnificent and positive impression." To reporters he cracked: "I'm trying to get a minority report on something, but I'm not having any luck." Strauss joked about the joyous risk that the unusual degree of harmony might become a wet blanket of ennui at Madison Square Garden: "I'm not bored a bit. I might just sit in the background and drink a little whisky." In fact, with the nomination virtually settled, Carter will have to use some...