Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reiterating the platitudes of the Party meeting hall. ... It is not enough to get up and thump the table and talk about the socialization of all the means of production, distribution and exchange. I have done my share of that in my time; you could always count on a cheer of some sort. But it doesn't begin to get near the real problem of how to act and when...
...contents apparently made the President happy. At his press conference next day, Franklin Roosevelt bubbled with good cheer. The Old Optimist was in high good humor. Relations between himself and Joseph Stalin, he told the newsmen, were excellent...
Depicting a story of a counterfeiting gang who are operating against this government, "I Escaped from the Gestapo" is good enough to hold your attention and to make you cheer when the FBI takes a hand in disposing of the band of saboteurs...
...afternoon Lieut. Duncan Clark of Chicago, one of the press censors, came to cheer me up." (Pyle at this time had what he called "African Pip" or "Puny Pyle's Perpetual Pains.") "I was busy killing flies. . . . Lieut. Clark said he had discovered . . . that flies always take off backwards. Consequently if you'll aim about two inches behind them, you'll always get your fly on the rise. So for the next few days I murdered flies under this scientific system. And I must say that I never missed a fly as long as I aimed behind...
...which was still mopping up in the suburbs), pulled up as big as life at Nazi headquarters in the Majestic Hotel before the last Germans had cleared out. There weren't any Allied troops within three or four miles, but so many natives and Frenchmen turned out to cheer Lang and his friends that the Nazis inside scrammed out the back door to the garage and made their getaway after planting grenades in the motors of all the cars they were not using for their escape...