Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shell to land, bony brown hands clutching at rifles, eyes narrowed to slits. Another instant and a black mushroom of smoke grew silently out of the road. By the time the sound had echoed back, the vehicle was rolling helplessly down the precipice. From the escarpment rose an Arab cheer; one man jumped up and kissed both chubby cheeks of Captain Selim Assil, a staff officer from Fawzi's headquarters...
...Cheer up, brothers, for the day is at band. Suffolk Downs dusts off the bugle Monday afternoon...
Europeans find little to cheer about. Thirty-four months after V-E day, recovery has come so slowly-so much hope has been deferred-that few can bring themselves to say they feel better off (though engaged couples, newlyweds, and young lawyers busy with their first cases nearly always do say so). In Sweden, in Switzerland and in Italy most say that their condition is "the same." In Britain, France and the U.S. Zone of Germany, most say "worse...
...Bethlehem fight, members of Haganah, the Zionist militia, took refuge in a stone house which the Arabs quickly surrounded. During the night Arabs crept close enough to call promises to the Jews that their lives would be spared if they surrendered. The Jews answered with a Bronx cheer...
Demonstrators also rushed a lingerie truck delivering too cream to the Club's kitchen, and made up a new College cheer, "H-A-R-V-A-R-D phooey...