Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Might of Peace. But he could hardly help noticing the crowd's behavior. Some 65,000 people were in the windswept stadium (capacity 116,308) as the President arrived. Many had waited three or four hours; the temperature was 46°. The crowd gave Eisenhower its biggest cheer of the day, listened attentively to his speech ("We must, until perpetual peace is assured, maintain and constantly improve the perishable machines of our security...
...President went on to his major pronouncement: "The immediate goal of our foreign policy is to support the United Nations to the utmost." There was a feeble cheer, a few seconds of applause for this implicit answer to Winston Churchill's call for an Anglo-American fraternity of interests against Russia. The U.S. pledges its power behind the United Nations' "right to insist that the sovereignty and integrity of the Near and Middle East must not be threatened by coercion or penetration." No response from the crowd...
...nation could not quite believe that UNO was really in danger of blowing up. The land of the airborne custard pie and the quick punch in the nose, of the goon, the stink bomb, the special deputy and the Bronx cheer had never found peace very peaceful. In the midst of their own private postwar fights over wages, rents and nylons, many a U.S. citizen saw nothing out-of-the-way in the United Nations quarrel over Iran...
...admitted to "conversational respectability, even among rather careful speakers of English"). Said Yale's Robert D. French: men like Churchill make the English language. Seconded Princeton's Gordon H. Gerould: idiomatic English is good speech, prissy English is not. Said Columbia's Raymond M. Weaver: "A cheer for Mr. Churchill...
...sorry steed but in a Packard limousine (he no longer uses a German Mercedes-Benz), the most unquixotic of Spaniards drove through his capital. His Sancho Panzas were red-bereted bodyguards armed with Tommy guns. A clamorous crowd was assembled to cheer his progress through the Puerta del Sol. They gave the Falangist salute. They chanted: "Franco! Franco! Franco!" They screamed: "Franco, yes! Russia...