Word: joyousness
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Father Jenco's most joyous moment came on his second morning in West Germany, when he was reunited with eleven members of his family who had flown from the U.S. aboard an Air Force jet. When the priest entered the hospital room in which the group had gathered, his brother John later recalled, "we all sort of melted in our tracks. Then there was all this squeezing and crying." John's first words to his long-lost brother: "I love you, and please forgive me for anything that I have ever done wrong to you." As they talked, the priest...
...birth of a child is usually a joyous occasion and our fondest wishes and fervent prayers are extended to this precedent-setting newcomer to the world," Werner Fornos, the president of the institute, told reporters at a press conference earlier this week...
...been conceived as a joyous occasion, a chance to let U.S. pride soar. The six surviving original Mercury astronauts would be reunited at a gala Los Angeles dinner, and workers at the Kennedy Space Center would gather for a ceremony. At both events, speakers would celebrate the 25th anniversary of American manned space flight and chronicle the quarter-century of achievements since Alan Shepard's historic suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. After Challenger's seven crew members perished on Jan. 28, plans for a more somber observance continued; a reminder of past successes might restore NASA's morale...
...hard on ourselves? Take me, for instance. Sometimes a tiny voice tells me, "Leo, you are creating soft-centered, runny confections again." But then I think: There's new stuff here. There's the part about how you can make cleaning your house a vibrant symphony of joyous motion, and the big uplift when my cat turned out to have one of the highest feline IQs ever tested. There's a lesson in all this: deactualize all those shoulds and musts. I believe it was Clint Eastwood who observed, "Let love make your day." I could go on like this...
Children danced triumphantly at the door of the small red brick house in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. Neighbors and friends greeted its famous resident with joyous tears and welcoming hugs. For the first time in nine years, Winnie Mandela, a leading antiapartheid activist and the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, enjoyed a privilege that most take for granted: the right to enter her own home...