Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble was that European enthusiasm found few echoes among the Arabs themselves; they might not have found much to resent, but still they would not cheer. Lebanon's usually pro-Western Al-Jarida complained that Ike had not addressed himself to "the basic problem of the Arab world"-Israel. The most hopeful thing a New York Times correspondent could find to say about Egyptian press comment was that it was "only slightly abusive...
...clear that Nasser was suggesting to the other Mideast states that they join in one big family dominated, naturally, by Nasser and Egypt. If Iraqis in the new Cabinet longed to keep oil royalties inside their own borders, they had to be mindful of the Baghdad street mobs that cheer Nasser's photograph, and absorb the lies and fury of Radio Cairo...
...stock market's steep climb is beginning to cause more uneasiness than cheer. Last week, just after the market hit a 1958 high of 510.33 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the Federal Reserve Board joined the ranks of the worriers. Noting that customer credit had increased by $746 million in the first half of the year, it raised margin requirements (i.e., the minimum cash payment required on stock purchases) from 50% to 70%. While the Fed thought its action would act as a damper on speculation, changes in margins have usually had almost no effect on the market...
...paper noted that laborers were required to be able to lift 140 lbs., and that so many applicants wanted laborers' jobs that the city has no plans to hold any more examinations for two years. For weak-backed or stubbornly intellectual students, there was one note of cheer: if they studied long enough to become a psychiatric social service worker, they could eventually earn more ($525 a month) than the city's laborers, although they would have to start lower...
...short. Indiscreet is a conventional comedy of what Hollywood supposes to be upper-class manners, but it is flicked off in the high old style of hilarity that U.S. moviemakers seem to have forgotten in recent years. Director Donen deserves a cash-register-ringing cheer. Actress Bergman, always lovely to look at, is thoroughly competent in the first comedy role that she has played for Hollywood. And Gary Grant is in a class by himself when it comes to giving a girl a yacht...