Word: joys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these museums on a rotating basis. This plan, unfortunately, did not succeed. I hope that in the future closer cooperation among museums will reverse the trend toward ever-increasing prices for works of art. In the meantime, I like to think that most Americans feel a sense of joy and enrichment in having this great Velázquez come to this country and realize that its price tag will eventually disappear...
...President brought joy to Burbank, Calif., home of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., when the Senate by a vote of 49-48 approved an Administration-backed $250 million federal loan to the ailing company. That saved an estimated 60,000 jobs in the depressed aerospace industry. Before the week was out, lines formed again in Burbank restaurants; banks reported a brisk business in traveler's checks. But in another aerospace center. Seattle, the gloom only deepened when the Nixon Administration refused to distribute surplus food commodities in the city because it already had a food-stamp program in operation. While some...
...biggest chunk of those jobs are in Lockheed's headquarters in Burbank and the TriStar plant at nearby Palmdale, Calif. Thus when the Senate clerk announced the vote, there was great joy in those towns. Telephone lines were jammed as relatives and friends spread the news. Champagne flowed at the local union halls. Restaurants were crowded for the first time in months. Ever since Lockheed began laying off some 9,000 TriStar workers last winter, local residents had been putting off decisions about whether to buy new cars or refrigerators. Sales-tax receipts in Burbank had fallen 24% from...
...Force and quickly developed a taste for flying. Relatively short (5 ft. 8 in.) and introspective, he runs and plays tennis to keep in shape but seems to like few things better than staying at home with his wife, a former photographer's model, and their four children, Joy, Jill, James...
...chided his brother for proposing an oversized budget in 1957, Ike shrugged: "Edgar has been criticizing me since I was five years old." The second of the seven Eisenhower brothers, "Big Ike," as Edgar was known, liked to recall how he and "Little Ike" would fight "for the sheer joy of slugging one another" during their boyhood days in Abilene, Kans. But when 14-year-old Dwight got blood poisoning after skinning his knee, Edgar physically barred the doctor from amputating...