Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company was cut off by the Nazis. Most of the men were badly wounded and there was no one to care for them. Chaplain Parry volunteered to go and help. Under cover of darkness he crawled to the isolated position, found the medical post, helped dress wounds and cheer...
...remembered Yale weekend freshman year, and the junior, mature and self-assured in his how tie and Argyle socks, who'd taken pity on him and got him drunk for the first time in his life. And that had brought back the Stadium, and the team and the "Fight" cheer. He saw the Charles late in the afternoon, and the last crew shooting under Anderson bridge, heading for Newell. The warm, sentimental flood was getting stronger, pulling him along. He took a pull at his drink, lit a cigarette and let himself...
...great cheer to Arthur Cremin, who has sent $1,000 to. Dr. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, through TIME [May 29]. Perhaps this noble gesture will attract the attention of the chemical companies who will commercialize and market this "wonder drug" and make them realize that it would be only fair to let Drs. Fleming & Florey share their great profits...
...this mean that the New York market had a long rise ahead? No Wall Streeter would climb out on this limb. In fact, many were betting the other way. But for the nonce the cheer overbalanced the gloom...
...authorities sought ways to cheer the dour people. Amid Berlin's debris 72 movie theaters kept open; they held high priority in air-raid repair. A flower show in the capital featured half a million tulips. The Nazi Party stepped up weekend sports; Berliners had a choice of boating on the Wannsee, trotting races at Mariendorf, steeplechasing at Karlshorst, football, tennis and hockey matches. The radio urged: "The human body and soul need the stimulating reactions of the laughing muscles. He who cannot laugh lives in vain...