Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute sum of such unimportant bits added up to a quiet, detailed, richly evocative piece of radio reporting. U.S. radio listeners could cheer Corwin's assumption that they were adult enough to understand common adult speech, could therefore be spared the painful explanations that often accompany radio's attempts to inform...
...vast Municipal Stadium (capacity: 102,000) to little Thompson Field (capacity: 22,000), tickets were limited to people living within ten miles of Annapolis' State House. To take the place of the Army cadets, denied transportation from West Point, half the Annapolis student body was delegated to cheer for the Army. With fingers crossed, they fulfilled their assignment for a while. But when the midshipmen began to tear the Army apart, they showed their true colors...
...human hero of World War II ever received a more rousing welcome. River boats tootled their greetings, sailors swarmed over the decks of adjoining ships to wave and yell at her, thousands of workmen set up a cheer. A bosun piped lean Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, aboard; he grimly surveyed the damage, examined the six Japanese flags painted beneath her bridge. Said he: "Well done." Said grinning Captain Mike Moran: "She's a grand ship...
Paradox is that these results were palatable to New Dealers and conservatives alike. New Dealers could cheer on the theory that less public spending by the States may mean more ultimate power to gargantuan Washington. But conservatives figured that if people have tired of fancy State expenditures, they may one day turn on Washington also...
Swelling its ranks as the procession wound through the Houses, the rally gathered in front of the Varsity Club to hear and cheer speeches by the great Tack Hardwick '16, three-time All-American, Dick Harlow, Don Forte, and Loren MacKinney, stellar end on last year's eleven...