Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fingertip. Unruffled by all of this political sniping, Magsaysay took off for a Sunday plunge into the provinces, where his popularity is untouchable. Leaving Malacanan Palace at 6 a.m., he sped north into Tarlac province. Wherever a group of Filipinos had gathered along the roadside to wave and cheer, Magsaysay stuck out his hand and Filipinos would reach out and fleetingly brush his fingertips. Their faces lighted up at the contact; so did his. Whenever the crowd was as big as 200, Magsaysay popped out to shake everybody's hand, then walked down the road for a hundred yards...
Cliff hanger Van Doren gave his fellow sufferers something special to cheer about -he broke TV's record ($100,000) for big giveaway bonanzas, built his winnings up to $104,500. As a result of it all, Bachelor Van Doren, son of Poet Mark Van Doren,* has become a sort of All-America Ph.D. When he enters his English classroom at Columbia University, his students rise to cheer him. He is being swamped with TV offers and marriage proposals. (A tax expert said he could save $16,000 by getting married this year, and a girl wrote: "I would...
...Sock it to 'em," said Lloyd with a cheer...
...down, the planes sedately taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent, immobile in a neat line, each engine coughing up a puddle of unused fuel. With equal abruptness, 600 onlookers broke into a wild cheer. The three swept-wing planes, carrying 27 crewmen in all, had just completed the first round-the-world nonstop jet flight in record-breaking time: they had flown 24,325 miles in 45 hr. 19 min. at an average speed of about 550 m.p.h...
...Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel last week to watch Italy's best take on a team of six of the best U.S. players was a little surprised when it was urged to break all the un written rules. "Hiss when you want to," said the master of ceremonies. "Cheer or boo or shout. The players can't hear you." The players were comfortably quaran tined behind soundproof glass walls so they would not be disturbed by crowd noise, the monologue of a commentator who mapped the play on a long board, and the scurrying of the technicians...