Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wintry streets of Britain's towns & villages, 2,000,000 men of the Home Guard paraded for the last time. Londoners lined three miles of streets to cheer the final march past. The "little man's" army, having waited four and a half years for an enemy who never came, finally "stood down" last week in a blaze of glory and gratitude. From the Home Guard's Colonel in Chief, King George VI, came a solemn tribute: "... A force . . . mighty in courage and determination." Said Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, the man who called the Guard to arms...
With two minutes remaining in the game, though, the home five gave the small gathering of navy men and civilians a chance to cheer by notching a couple of quick baskets and closing the gap slightly. HARVARD G F TP Clark, lf 1 3 5 Johnson 3 1 7 Chapple, rf 2 0 4 Wright 0 0 0 Mackintosh, c 0 1 1 Pierce 0 0 0 Noble 1 1 3 Keene, rg 1 0 2 Burk 1 0 2 Collins, lg 0 0 0 Kelsey...
Announced yesterday by the Athletic Association was the schedule for the 1944-45 hoop season. In a friendly gesture designed to cheer wounded veterans, games have been scheduled with several Service Hospitals in the State. These games will be played in addition to contests with Army and Navy teams and college outfits inside the 50 mile radius set for informal Crimson teams...
...reconnaissance pilot was astonished at finding a V-2 zooming toward his plane over Europe, close enough for him to try for a picture. But the whooshing rocket was too quick for his camera and his plates showed only V-2's trail of vapor-"like a Bronx cheer in smoke...
...brought out more Christmas cheer last week. WPBoss Julius Krug declared the second liquor holiday since the ban was imposed in October 1942. Beverage distillers may make whiskey during January, can look forward to more holidays in 1945. Reason: the industrial alcohol reser voir is now 64,000,000 gallons, more than twice minimum, requirements...