Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stands, and the Yanks were leading. With two out in the ninth inning, the Dodgers had the tying run on second base. Pinch-Hitter Cookie Lavagetto stepped up to the plate-and struck out. Now the Yankees were in the lead, three games to two, and there was no joy in Mudville...
Happy Day. In Washington, James Davis, informed by Marian Schubert that she would indeed marry him, jumped for joy, broke...
...when he was 36, Gide wrote in his Journals: "Never a man, I shall never be anything but an aged child. I live with all the incoherence of a lyric poet, but two or three ideas, crosswise in my brain and rigid like parallel bars, crucify every joy. . . ." Certainly there is little enough of joy in the aged child's day-to-day confessional. Touchy and lacking creative confidence, he worked from compulsion and usually despaired of the results, cringed before criticism, sought solace in voracious reading and five-hour-long sessions at the piano...
...there is no cause for joy over the way in which Russia received the Marshall proposal, there is certainly good reason for satisfaction in the fact that the proposals were made. For the second time in four months the United States has taken the initiative in offering a program for promoting peace and security. The two Marshall plans, made successively in the Harvard address and at Flushing Meadows, support the belief that finally the United States has assumed the mantle of leadership among peace loving nations, and that henceforth its great power and prestige will be actual rather than potential...
Never in the history of horse racing have the stakes been so high. And never before has one stable won so many big pots. Last week, Calumet Farm added up more than $1,000,000 in purses won this year (previous record: $601,660). Its pride & joy, Armed, had put Calumet over a million with his victory in the Washington Park Handicap at Chicago. Armed overtook Assault to become the second biggest money-winner of all time. And there is still another quarter million in purses for Calumet's fast horses to run after this season...