Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall beam from which dangled a hangman's noose. A heavy leather belt was tied around his chest and two assistants hauled him to the top of the beam, where a white-gloved hangman fastened the noose around his neck. The assistants let go. A mild cheer broke out and was hushed by court dignitaries. Of all the eyes that watched, not one was softened by compassion...
...Note of Cheer. In his friendliest, let's-be-reasonable manner, "Hump" Mitchell turned the delegation down. Removal of wage control, he said, would breach the Government's anti-inflation barrier. Hump shifted his spectacles to his nose's tip, wagged a warning forefinger: "If you give effect to this [strike] policy, you will be endangering the organizations you represent." On that note the interview ended...
...long after the irrepressible Lop reappeared on the balcony of a Latin Quarter cafe. "Tomorrow," he promised, "I shall be called to power." Loyally le front lopulaire rallied to cheer...
...same Tyrolean ultra-conservatism that Napoleon failed to break brought them out to cheer Otto and Robert Habsburg who drove through the country a few months ago in a Mercedes with the royal crown on the radiator. An Allied directive from Vienna last month expelled the pair. Hotel Owner Franz Huber mourned: "I shall always keep my finest suite ready...
...French propaganda has not been entirely successful. Last week French zone Austrians turned out to cheer and throw flowers at German P.O.W.s (guarded by U.S. Nisei) moving northward from Italy, where they were captured, to a new camp at Bavaria's Bad Aibling. Embarrassed French authorities ordered the prisoner convoys to move only at night in the future...