Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody...
...Walthamstow Stadium, one of Britain's biggest dog-racing tracks. While a band (for no known reason) blared-Deep in the Heart of Texas and Umbrella Man (which might have irritated Conservatives who recalled Neville Chamberlain), Churchill arrived with Clemmy (Mrs. Churchill). The Prime Minister drew a tremendous cheer. Then began one of the most exasperating hecklings of his career. Well-primed rowdies howled, booed and shouted: "We want Attlee!" (Clement Attlee, Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister). Said Churchill: "In a free country like ours. . . ." Boos blitzed him out. Churchill stared at his hecklers, said: "Surely that...
...Hold Onto Your Chairs." Then the Prime Minister peeled off his political jacket and jabbed at his enemies. Some of the jabs: "I want to talk about London's wonderful [war] record-would you like to boo that?"; "The winners cheer and the beaten boo"; "You ask for my policy? I'll tell you-it is to beat Japan first." Talking about the prewar building of 350,000 houses a year, Churchill said: "Hold onto your chairs. This is going to be one you don't like-two-thirds of those [houses] were built by private enterprise...
...There's nothing to cheer about, boys-and nothing to be afraid of either. A lot of screwballs seem to have an idea we were going to scrap the Army & Navy and submit everything to a vote. We told them the Senate and the people wouldn't stand...
...Cheer Up! In Port Chester, N.Y., the Item prepared [its] readers for the worst with [these] front-page headlines: HEAT...