Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down yonder in New Orleans they had plenty to cheer about last week. Andrew Jackson Higgins, their No. 1 boatbuilder, money-maker and hoopla artist, had practically landed one of the biggest single transport-plane contracts in U.S. history: about $180,000,000 for 1,200 huge, twin-engined, all-plywood troop-and tank-carrying planes. This was good news for Louisiana's Andrew Higgins-the man who took ribbing aplenty when his much-touted Liberty Ship contract was canceled last summer. It also meant that Higgins had stolen a march on his friend and archrival, Henry Kaiser...
...stepped off the train, she smiled broadly, walked straight to the Queen, over whom she towered by a full head & shoulders. Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "How nice to see you again. How are you?" Newsreels ground away as she chatted with the royal couple; the crowd let out a ready cheer as she drove to Buckingham Palace...
...word manuscript about his life at sea, three cartons of cigarets and a box of 5? cigars. A small British vessel which picked up Herman and his mates was already crowded with U.S., Dutch, Norwegian and Russian survivors. Some of the Russian sailors were women; they valiantly tried to cheer...
When the pro-games ceremonies, which include Army cheers, are over, the participants are not obliged to stay in the Army seats, nor do they need to cheer for the Cadets. HARVARD ARMY Barnes (186), le re, Crowell (180) Durwood (196), lt rt, Olds (190) Hibbard (210), lg rg, Mesereau (205) J. Fisher (187), c c, Myslinski (180) Kamp (187), rg lg, Wilson (200) Stannard (190), rt lt, Merritt (215) Garland (204), re le, Saizer (180) Anderson (180), qb qb, Jarrell (170) Wilson (190), lhb rhb, Hill (178) O'Donnell (150), rhb lhb, Maxur (175) Johnson (190), fb fb, Troxell...
More short cheers, on the order of the trumpet call fight cheer, are needed, according to Drucker, who emphasized the need for a neutral "fight, team, fight" cheer that can be used whether the team is being successful...