Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joy Y. Chen '96, Brett R. Conner '96 and Emmeline F. Li '96 joined 22 other volunteers from the U.S., Canada and France for an eight-week program designed to provide a cross-cultural perspective and help Chinese students gain a better knowledge of English...
...After a few sips of one of his fine clarets, Burger, who died last week at the age of 87, would lean back and reminisce about his rearing in the mold of the Horatio Alger stories, where young boys never rested, tried everything, excelled at much and took joy at each simple turn in a life on the land. He recalled the hot summer workdays near St. Paul, Minnesota, when he would cool off with a splash in the farm pond, then pick ripe, tender tomatoes, lick them so salt would stick and pop them full into his mouth. "There...
...this recent shake-up in the choral program. It is true that Beverly is pleasant, courteous and good-humored in her conducting role (if that is what is meant by "laid back"), but she is also demanding, rigorous and highly disciplined. She makes singing both a challenge and a joy for the performers. And if there is anything "unique" in her personality, it is, as Richard Dyer has written of her, that she possesses to a rare degree the capacity to inspire singers at every level to give their very best to a performance...
...city huddled in their apartments and waited. Some listened to explosions from the battlefields. Others attended to their battery-run radios. For hours the state-controlled media gave no information. Then at 3 p.m., listeners received the news: the government forces were advancing. All Sarajevo seemed to lift with joy. Radios were placed on windowsills so that music could fill the streets. Bottles of brandy were brought out for toasts. Days before, a weekly newspaper had run the headline THE ARMY WILL BREAK THE SARAJEVO BLOCKADE IN 24 HOURS. Now the government had advanced, and with tears in her eyes...
...diggerati" do not really want to garden; they just want to have a garden, which means they're more willing to spend money than time outdoors. This represents a departure from the renaissance that the hobby enjoyed in the '80s, when all kinds of people discovered the raw joy of eating tomatoes that they first met as seeds and spending long afternoons primping their hedges. Where once Americans took the products of their gardens to the market, now they are bringing the market to their gardens. In all, Americans spent nearly $26 billion last year alone, up 15.5% from...