Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College might as well stand for Athletic & Military. In other days nine out of ten of its students played football on one of its many school teams; all but the bedridden turned out for "yell [not cheer] practice," its rough, tough, blacksmith-armed Aggie teams romped over opponents. And last week, of 699 graduates in the class of 1942, 565 went out with Army commissions; of the remaining 134, more than half have already signed for Army and Navy aviation. Texas A. & M. turns out more officers than West Point...
...jubilee or rejoicing. The U.S. had begun to learn some things about the war-one of them was that no great victory yet on either side has been great enough. The news from the War Department, giving the first details of the bombing of Tokyo, was another reason to cheer, ring bells, tie down whistles. But no one did. And thus, significantly, the U.S. revealed the depth of its realization that the U.S. is now deep...
...Prime Minister ended, as he had begun, in high humor: "Therefore, tonight, I give you a message of good cheer-you deserve it and the facts indorse it. But be it good cheer or be it bad cheer, it will make no difference to us. We shall drive on to the end, and do our duty, win or die. God helping us, we can do no other." Not many Britons realized that these final words were a graceful echo from Woodrow Wilson's declaration of war in 1917. President Wilson, speaking of the establishment of a universal dominion...
...Early in the week San Francisco's shortwave station KGEI had Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright broadcast a message of good cheer to "Skinny," accompanied by three wagging woofs from the General's pet Labrador Retriever. When the end of Bataan came, KGEI's "Freedom for the Philippines" rose to the occasion with a solemnity by which the grim survivors on Corregidor were moved to tears: "The world will long remember the epic struggle the Filipinos and Americans put up. . . . But what sustained them through all these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical...
Americans who have listened through radio's well-meant, sometimes brilliant but often talky, overdone, and unrealistic attempt to propagandize the war since Dec. 7 had something to stand up and cheer for last week: The Army Hour. A brand-new, 60-minute Sunday afternoon show put on by the U.S. Army, it had the welcome ring of authenticity...