Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athens crowds gathered all week long outside Makarios' hotel to stare and cheer. Old men on donkeyback, women on foot came from distant villages to offer him flowers and prayers. Makarios lunched with Greece's King Paul. Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who had not met him at the airport in deference to Turkey's protests, called on him in his suite. Among other visitors: his sister and the sister of EOKA Leader Dighenis, who live together in Athens. Watching the scenes of adulation, observers conceded that Archbishop Makarios right now could overturn the Karamanlis government itself...
Everywhere the Queen and Prince Philip went, Parisian crowds gathered to gape and cheer. Outside the opera the welcoming hordes pressed so close that the mounted guards had to drive them back with drawn swords. At a huge reception in the Louvre many of the 2,000-odd distinguished guests vied with each other for vantage points on the pedestals of world-famed works of art as museum guards shook their heads in despair. "I expected Marcus Aurelius to topple over on me at any moment," said one grande dame nervously. As the party broke up, even the footmen...
...Baghdad, while thousands of Iraqis gathered to cheer both their King and his astute, farsighted minister, 68-year-old Nuri es-Said,Feisal snipped the royal gold scissors and opened to regular traffic two $4,500,000 bridges across the Tigris. In another quarter of the capital the King dedicated a 1,250-unit housing project which boasts schools, a mosque and "gossip squares," where Iraqis may indulge their favorite national pastime. The housing program's long-range goal: 400,000 dwellings-new roofs for one-third of Iraq's population...
...Love or Perish, by Smiley Blanton (Simon & Schuster; 164,000 copies sold so far). Puckish Smiley Blanton, 74, has for 19 years spread psychiatric good cheer belowstairs at the Marble Collegiate Church in the clinic which he founded with Dr. Peale and still heads. More than most psychiatrists, he understands that the meaning of love extends beyond the ability to make it. But his book is a hodge-podge of marital, parental and occupational anecdotes...
...occasional cheer is still heard in the dining hall on a rare Saturday night, but the cheerleader now stands in danger of being alone. The periodic smokers have also lost the added zip they once possessed...