Word: joys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first?before what was in the transcripts became widely known?the Nixon counteroffensive brought joy to the Republicans. Supporters looked on the offer of transcripts as the evidence of innocence they had been begging the President for months to release. Washington Governor Dan Evans said that he felt "like a football fan cheering on the home team. I think the President threw a touchdown pass." The Richmond (Va.) News Leader exulted: "This is an immensely happy development. For the first time, those who want to support the President?those who have clung to vestiges of hope that...
...gray turtleneck sweater. In a firm, assured voice, she answered "Not guilty" eighteen times as the counts, first against Mitchell, then against onetime Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, were read. When the litany exonerating Mitchell was completed, one of his defense attorneys let out a small whoop of joy and tried to embrace his client; the undemonstrative Mitchell shook him off. "You've got the jury system and it always works," he said calmly afterwards. Stans was less restrained. Eyes moist, he hugged one of his attorneys and later said: "I feel like I've been reborn...
Even last week's military coup in Portugal--important though it was, for the prospect of earlier self-rule it raises for Portugal's rebelling African colonies and for the tremendous joy and revolutionary spirit it set off in Portugal itself--has ironies enough to make it a good symbol for the last year's limited advances. Antonio de Spinola, the country's new strong man, has no great democratic biography--his military service came as a Fascist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, as an observer with the German army in World War II, and as a commander with...
...Last year Hall worked as a $4.18-an-hour parks attendant, but she considered herself to be an artist and poet. A sample: "I will cradle you/ In my woman hips/ Kiss you/ with my woman lips/ Fold you to my heart/ And sing:/ Sister woman, You are a joy...
...time before in lieu of tax payments, strikes, and demonstrations, Harvard was the pride and joy of the city...