Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cortés Castro streamed into the neat little capital of San José (pop. 76,000). All night they paraded and chanted. A float showed Communists hanged in effigy. Next day 25,000, including many screaming women, jammed into the Plaza Gonzalez Víquez to cheer their candidate. The hospital of San Juan de Dios had installed 50 extra beds. Soon most were occupied. Two men were killed, 35 badly injured...
...Badly shot up, a U.S. flyer was slinking along the coast to the home base. Suddenly, a British voice came over his earphones: "Cheer up, chicken, we have you." He looked around, saw two Spitfires mothering him back to the home field...
Last week Wendell Willkie rolled back home from a 5,000-mile trip to win Republican leaders by winning the people out from under them. Everywhere, even in the deep South, the people turned out for a look, stayed to cheer. A cheer in December 1943 is not necessarily a vote in November 1944. But the possibility was enough to rouse other Republicans to a stop-Willkie frenzy. Glowed Willkie: "I must be making great progress these days, for the peewees are shooting...
Some 2,800 stockholders in two lately obscure U.S. corporations are about to be inundated with 255,000 bbl. of rye and Kentucky bourbon. That is 12,240,000 gal., or 48,960,000 quarts, or 61,200,000 fifths of Christmas cheer. The cheer...
...Duke of Wellington did both. When he returned to England after beating Napoleon's marshals in Spain, Englishmen made the dusty turnpike road from Dover to London "one long roaring cheer." He rode unmoved, and apparently unhearing, through 60 solid miles of praise. He believed that if you ignored the fickle crowd's catcalls you should also ignore its plaudits, and as a commander in Spain he had had to ignore its criticisms. Not many years later he was the most unpopular man in England. Once a huge mob stormed his mansion and smashed every window while...