Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Superoptimists in Washington and in industry guessed it would be a swift trip, perhaps no more than 60 days, to all but the details of prewar normalcy. The cautious knew that they did not know, and admitted it. But between doubt and unbridled cheer there were some reasonable estimates of what the U.S. could expect. Firm facts and best bets...
More than 3,000 soldiers let out a cheer that shook the ship from bow to stern. They had been diverted from the Pacific...
...bounded out of the plane briskly, setting foot on English soil for the first time in his life-and for the first visit of a U.S. President to Britain since Woodrow Wilson's triumphal tour in 1919. There were few Britons on hand to cheer Harry Truman. "Operation Exodus" (the military-code designation for the visit) had unavoidably run into a snafu. Ground haze prevented the scheduled landing at another field. Thus the route that Harry Truman took into Plymouth was largely unpeopled. From Queen Anne's Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed...
...this week's Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Black is somewhat less inclusive in his claims for his new instrument-several special types of cavities still require ordinary burrs. But he feels that there is definite cause for good cheer among dental patients...
...crowd broke into a faint cheer. A narrow slit had appeared in the eastern altocumulus cloud bank. As the sun climbed toward the slit and the stop watches ticked on toward the scheduled time, the expedition held its breath. At 6:07 the sun, already in partial eclipse, broke into the clear. At 6:15 on the dot, Dr. Stewart shouted...