Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early Thursday it covered an area of the bay about 9.4 miles by 11 miles and was moving westward, rather than north toward Tokyo. TIME's Satsuki Oba reports the news caused residents of the city to breathe an enormous sigh of relief. But not everyone was bursting with joy. Early this morning, a severed ox head was found on the front steps of the house where the tanker company president lives...
...dedicated mentor to scores of young writers at this magazine. She took them under her care and helped infuse them with the joy that comes from well-crafted sentences and judgments. One of them, Nancy Gibbs, pointed out in her eulogy that Martha had two great talents as a teacher: "She always knew more than you did. She never pointed that...
...Region. The Chinese feel that a historic wrong has been righted. It showed in the faces of the elderly pensioners who gathered a few weeks ago in the mainland city of Shenyang for their own humble handover ceremony. The Old People's Singing Group of Xinghur Park caroled their joy at Hong Kong's return: "100 years is a long time/But now Hong Kong is coming home...
Those who lost something precious in the blast--their loved one, their limb, their ability to see or hear, their capacity for joy--have earned this point of view. But what about the rest of us? While the horrific scale of McVeigh's crime seems to demand the ultimate penalty, there's something unsettling about the way so much of America is gearing up for a good old-fashioned grudge killing. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 78% of respondents--82% of men and 75% of women--wanted McVeigh to receive the death penalty. (About the same percentage favored...
Rabbi William Lebeau gives the final eulogy of the day. He speaks of Jonathan's "joy" in teaching and, in a tacit reference to the murder, warns against cynicism and despair. Even God despaired, he says, when he decided to drown the world. It took Noah to prove that a human being could be a worthwhile invention...