Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David T. Donovan '46, 22, Durham, N. H., Winthrop House, Engineering Sci., cheer leader, Band, Winthrop dance committee...
Boston's Mort Cooper, onetime St. Louis standby, shut out the Dodgers, 4-0. Just before that Brooklyn agony was over, an incongruous cheer went up. The Ebbets Field fans, many of them armed with portable radios to keep track of enemy operations, had heard that the Cubs had scored five runs and gone ahead of the Cards. An hour later it was over: the Cards and Dodgers stood even, each with 96 won, 58 lost. This week they would start all over again, in the first two-out-of-three playoff in big-league history...
...rally took on an educational aspect when the cheer leaders introduced a new skyrocket cheer and a new locomotive yell, but the receptive audience had them completely mastered on the second time through. Then the band and the crowd collaborated to make the traditional football songs echo to the Square and the Yard...
...rescue party from the U.S. Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up the rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died in the crash (two died later). It was the worst accident in transatlantic flying history...
...automobile industry, whose prices were already 22% above 1942, did not know whether to cheer or tremble. Higher prices might easily reduce its sales to a point at which it could not make money with its increased break-even points. Shortages could turn into surpluses with surprising speed in the face of a market contracted by sky-high prices...