Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home-town crowd that had begun by rooting for Harlem's hero began to cheer the spectacle of a champ going down. "Hit him in his pink Cadillac," screamed a ringsider. Fullmer rained leather just about every place else. In the seventh he clubbed Robinson toward the canvas and then body-pushed him through the ropes. Sugar Ray was up at the count of six. For a brief flurry in the ninth, the champ looked like the destroyer of old. Still. Fullmer just kept coming...
...lank figure made his way to the front bench, flopped down, and put his long legs up on the table. Sir Anthony Eden was making his first appearance in the House of Commons since his collapse at the height of the Suez crisis. Some Tories put up a polite cheer. One or two rose but hastily subsided when they realized no one else was joining them. Other Tories sat mutely staring straight in front of them. The Labor benches kept a stony silence, leaving the Tory welcome starkly revealed in all its thinness...
Comedown. When it came time to examine NATO's defenses, there was little argument, but not much cause for cheer. Faced with the economic crisis brought on by Suez, Britain told the council frankly that it could no longer maintain its defense expenditures, which are currently running at $4.2 billion a year or 9% of the total national product. France admitted that there was no prospect of bringing back the four divisions it pulled out of NATO's shield for service in North Africa...
...that, Eden drove off to 10 Downing Street. Twice his car was stopped by long lines of cars blocking the roads around gasoline stations as motorists seized their last chance to fill their tanks before the imposition of rationing. At 10 Downing Street, a small crowd mustered a faint cheer and a scattering of boos. Waiting only to receive India's Prime Minister Nehru next day, Eden retired to Chequers, the Prime Minister's country home, for the weekend...
...bench jockeys winged epithets at his quick temper. Still his big bat, or darting base running, broke up ball games. The very sight of his pigeon-toed trot to position moved the fans on Coogan's Bluff to borrow from Yankee territory that ultimate complaint, the long Bronx cheer. Even when taking their lumps from every other team in the league, the Giants usually managed to play good ball against the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they never really beat Robby. So last week they did the next best thing: they bought...