Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment the crowd remained silent in confusion. Then a few quickwitted Christian Democrats began to cheer. They remembered a queer quirk in the Italian electoral law: in case of tie votes, the older man is chosen. And 52-year-old La Pira happens to be 18 months older than Socialist Ramat...
...smile of outward cheer...
With Ile de France, clear weather arrived. From Andrea Doria survivors saw a calm ocean "that would make their rescue easier, a wan moon overhead, and across the water the French liner closing in, with all lights turned on to cheer them. Searchlights fingered across the black water as monocled Captain Raoul de Beaudean maneuvered He de France to the leeward side of Andrea Doria to shelter the ten boats she was lowering from the wind...
Looking as if he wanted to break into a dance and a cheer, the Detroit Institute of Arts' Director Edgar P. Richardson peered through his rimless glasses at a press conference one day last week and announced: "I am about to tell the success story of a picture." What precise, soft-spoken Dr. Richardson had to tell was news indeed. The small (only 8 ¼-in. by 5 ¼in.) painting that the museum had bought in 1925 for $18,000 had at last been identified. Its painter: Jan van Eyck, one of the most highly valued Flemish artists...
...tropical suit at his air-conditioned apartment in the U.S. ambassador's residence, Ike left with his brother Milton, Dulles, Adviser Sherman Adams, Dr. Howard Snyder and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty for the Presidencia (the presidential palace). Again, the crowds swarmed along the streets to see him and cheer in the 90° heat. When he arrived at the Presidencia, he paused for the inevitable photos, then went inside, took a heavy, carved-mahogany chair at a long table in the banquet hall. The main and strange order of business: formal exchange of autographs among the American Presidents, each...