Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They all learn how to ski, how to drink, how to get along with people, and how to cheer at football games. In short, they learn how to be Dartmouth men. Politically, they are Republicans; economically they are at least "well...
Then as I tell them how much I like Hanover and Dartmouth, and how much fun it would be to go to Harvard with them, and wear a green tie, and cheer for the Big Green, they start to tell me what their plans for pranks are. This is what I'm waiting...
...health authorities are not yet in a mood to cheer. Egypt's people, many living in squalid surroundings, undernourished and with no built-up resistance to cholera, may still get it. Wandering Bedouin may still carry the disease to neighboring countries. But except for a few scattered and well-watched cases outside the main area, by this week the epidemic seemed pretty well fenced in. Since the start, there have been only 1,050 proved cases, 674 deaths. Help is still arriving...
...Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 8,000 new students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat down on them, the band blared out Hail to California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody had known he would, he struck...
Great crowds of cariocas packed Rio's Avenida Rio Branco to cheer the return of an exile. After 17 years in foreign lands, white-goateed Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza was back in Brazil.* When Getulio Vargas drove him out of the presidency in 1930 and set up a dictatorship, Washington Luiz swore never to return until Brazil was securely and constitutionally democratic. He came back when he decided that his conditions had been...