Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others go in for frank pep talks. The Rev. Herbert Garner of Battle Creek's First Presbyterian Church begins his messages with commands such as "Face Issues!" "Don't worry!" "Keep your temper!" Sample message: "Cheer up: the world needs people who are cheerful as much as it needs anything! Some are wise, some wealthy, skillful or famous. But all of us can be cheerful! It doesn't cost anything; in fact, it pays big dividends...
...Manhattan switchboard, she brings hope, cheer, confusion and the vice squad into the lives of various unseen clients in whom she takes an unsolicited interest. With one of them (pleasantly played by Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie), she falls in love at first hearing. The love story of Bells Are Ringing is almost defiantly orthodox, but suffused as it is with Judy's warmth, never really becomes a burden. But it does bulk much too large for wit to keep pace with sentiment, for the Comden-Green book to display the usual fresh, crisp Comden-Greenness...
According to the book, the captain's first order of business is to deliver an address to the populace, explaining to them what democracy is and that they have it. Fisby explains. Everybody cheers. The captain is delighted-until his interpreter, a picturesque chink in U.S. defenses who is known as Sakini (Marlon Brando), explains that during 800 years of foreign occupation the Okinawans have learned to cheer whoever is in charge, no matter what he says. The captain is badly shaken -and so begins an alarming assault on American theory by Okinawan practice, a shameless corruption of democracy...
...peace and the present situation from the point of view of information security." But on the whole, he complimented the committee, headed by Boston Lawyer Charles A. Coolidge, and gave orders for putting "the great majority" of its 28 recommendations into effect. Among the recommendations that the press can cheer: make clear that the classification system is not to be used to suppress information not affecting national security...
...stopped doing it. Most Britons were at least delighted to see Nasser taken down a peg. Attending the Lord Mayor's banquet in the Guildhall at week's end, Eden was applauded by crowds on the sidewalk, applauded again when the waiting dignitaries broke precedent to cheer him and Lady Eden as they entered on a flourish of trumpets. In pubs and farms, the reaction of many a normally loyal Labor voter was: "Thank heaven Eden had the guts to take firm action." Though Labor M.P.s harangued crowds from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Southampton on the theme...