Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet Life. It is doubtful if Salazar likes either the salute or the slogan. Unlike all other modern dictators, he hates parades, pomp or cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced...
...next column, the unpredictable Frank Owen felt better already. He had spent two days in the Daily Mail morgue, reading up on what happened after World War I. Wrote he: "... I cheer up too when I reflect that it's all happened before . . . dear food, scarce food, few clothes, no beer, high taxes, too many forms to fill up, not enough homes to live in, Germany, a crime wave, rising cost of living, falling output of goods, riots in India and Egypt. Everyone said: 'The country's going to the dogs.' Why, this is almost where...
...filled balloons soared overhead and vendors shouted an encouraging "Ice cream bars--Still OPA ceiling," as thousands of Cantabrigians lined Massachusetts Ave, and Garden St. to cheer the marching columns. Highlight of the parade was the appearance of the U.S. Army band. The rest of the procession consisted of military and naval units, veterans organizations, floats, ponderous with symbolism, petite and hippy drum majorettes, and sweating, gaily-uniformed bands...
...central France, has been famed for centuries for its carpets and tapestries. But of late no one wanted to buy tapestries; they were too expensive and their designs were too fussy. People no longer needed them to hang over doors and windows to keep out drafts, or to cheer barnlike castle halls. Now, a former cubist and surrealist painter named Jean Lurçat has given Aubusson a new lease on life...
...grant a $2-a-day increase and a 40-hour week. But in eastern Ontario 2,000 dairy farmers, representing 40,000 producers, threatened to call a milk strike on June 15 if their prices were not raised $3 per 100 lbs. There was only one note of cheer. The two-month-old strike of 400 National Brewery employes in Montreal finally ended last week. The strikers went back to work, though they had been granted none of their demands...