Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world living with the atomic bomb last week heard two notes of modest cheer...
Apart from the evidence that some Egyptians took it seriously, the Security Council had little to cheer about. During the week, Andrei Gromyko had blackballed the U.N. membership applications of Trans-Jordan, Eire, Portugal, Italy and Austria. He had blocked two more resolutions to do something about Greece. These Soviet gestures had required seven more vetoes (breaking all records for any week) and had raised the Russian total to 18 vetoes...
Sucked In. In Lodi, Calif., saddened by the plight of the fellows inside the local jail, outsider Jacob Hohnstein tried to spread a little cheer by siphoning in slugs of booze, got caught at it, became an insider himself...
...summer it was perfectly natural, but in the fall something ought to be done about it. A raffle at the end of one of the football games. Perhaps one of the smaller, early affairs, which would not attract a crowd otherwise. Everyone would get out there and cheer louder than he ever had before, because of the approaching excitement; that was pretty good, and Vag walked jauntily: soon they'd call him Machiavel Vag. He could see the crowd shouting, Harvard men shouting, for in his mind they would have the cherished prize of...of.., sure, Memorial Hall. Mem Hall...
...outfielder converged under the floodlights, Walker pushed his spiked shoes in front of him, dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered in Robinson's drive -barely off the grass. The fans gasped, then burst into a cheer. They cheered again the next time Harry Walker came to bat. Whatever his play might cost Brooklyn, it was a beauty...