Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were no inhabitants along the treeless gulf shore to cheer the Israeli pullout, but Gaza's 300,000 Arabs (220,000 of them Palestinian refugees on U.N. relief) more than made up for it. In Rafah crowds danced all day, shouting "Good Hammarskjold, good Abdel Nasser." After U.N.forces freed 120 political prisoners from Gaza's jail, thousands of Arabs paraded carrying such slogans as: "Welcome as guests but not rulers," and "We do not accept any rule except Egypt's." But the UNEF's taciturn commander, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, ordered...
...played by James Olson, is of the young, athletic type, but given to suffering for his faith. Or so we are led to believe by the fact that at one point, and for no clearly discernible reason, he breaks down in tears. I must admit an irreligious impulse to cheer at Pat's ultimately successful efforts to die without letting him administer the Last Sacraments of the Church. But that is the only thing The Sin of Pat Muldoon presents to cheer about...
What the basketball fans have noticed, and the reason they cheer now instead of wisecrack, is that the varsity five is playing as a varsity five, not as five basketball players on a court. Wilson has employed a pressing zone defense which makes his team run up and down the court, never giving the opponents time to set up any sort of consistent attack. This zone threw Princeton completely into confusion two weeks ago, and the Tigers, usually very cool in a crisis, were totally ineffective...
...subway, where a fleet foot and a sharp elbow mean a rush-hour seat. Wherever they pick it up, New Yorkers nourish an abiding admiration for the man who gets there in a hurry. The hustler is their hero, so every winter they set aside certain Saturday nights to cheer the hustlers in the great indoor track meets at Madison Square Garden...
...march through Georgia, using up its issue of candles to create a festival of light, so that "for miles across the darkened countryside the glimmer and glitter of these little fires twinkled . . . and the men looked at the strange spectacle they were making and set up a cheer that went from end to end of the army." There is a Union soldier in besieged Chattanooga reflecting that the antagonisms between eastern and western Federal troops often seemed greater than those that separated North and South. And there is Union General George McClellan in the grip of his "numbers" madness, unwilling...