Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gracious Charleston, the still midsummer air was broken by the sound of two Southern gentlemen campaigning. Just before South Carolina's Democratic primary, 4,000 voters had crowded into a ball park to boo or cheer the two voices bursting out of the loudspeakers...
...traveled south, with our jeeps slipping and miring down in the narrow muddy roads twisting through rice paddies, lines of refugees paused in flight to cheer the first Americans they had seen that day. More often they incongruously clapped-with the fast, excited clapping of a tennis audience at Wimbledon or Forest Hills. A bent old woman wearing a dusty white dress shouted "We will win" over & over again. Others took...
...Government's fiscal year ended last week, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder eked out a note of cheer for taxpayers: the federal deficit at the end of the fiscal year on June 30 was about $3.5 billion, instead of the $5.5 billion he predicted six months...
Many a small U.S. farm town-big enough for a post office or a bank branch but too small for a movie house or a department store-is dying. All over the U.S., judging by new census figures last week, little towns with names like What Cheer, St. Elmo, and Honey Grove are slowly withering...
...Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris, where she had a date with President Vincent Auriol...