Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparations were all there, but the enthusiastic cheer that the editorials and the glowing advertisements and his own tinted recollections associated with Christmas somehow had not come along with them this year. He wondered if it was the College routine or whether he was just too old for Christmas...
...pants and the comforting thought that most St. Paul citizens sympathized with them. Governor Edward Thye had said that teachers' salaries were too low. Parents living near the schools invited pickets in for a cup of coffee to take the chill away. Some students turned out to cheer the strikers on. Of course nobody tried to crash the picket line...
...General made no outward sign that he had changed his mind about politics. But many a Democrat thought him the only man who could save the party in 1948; many a Republican who could cheer for neither New York's Tom Dewey nor Ohio's Robert Taft began chomping and glaring jealously. Ike might find it hard to slap down the presidential...
...approval of the 20% income tax cut first proposed by loud, bullet-headed Congressman Harold Knutson. It would be an across-the-board cut, which is contrary to New Deal theories of graduated ("soak the rich") taxation. But then there were few Republican recommendations which a New Dealer would cheer. Minnesota's Republican Congressman Walter H. Judd, no New Dealer, later denied the right of the conferees to commit the whole party to such action; his was a still, small voice. The Republican bosses claimed that the tax cut could be safely made if the federal budget were...
...Fight" and "Beat Yale" were the words as a light soaking rain filtered down on the yelling Crimson rooters, spurred on by the band and head cheer-leader Gerry Spear...