Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capable of honest feeling about suffering anywhere, or just trying to save his own hide in the Communist wreckage. The Netherlands. Even children's TV shows were interrupted to urge prayers for the Hungarians. Some 30,000 Amster-dammers gathered one night in Dam Square to cheer denunciation of Russia. In Belgium, 5,000 university students stormed the Russian embassy in Brussels. Great Britain. Crowds marched in London streets wearing armbands of mourning. The Sadler's Wells Ballet Company called off its scheduled trip to Moscow. "Gabriel," chief political cartoonist of the London Daily Worker for 20 years...
Ignominious End. That afternoon Eden told the House of Commons: "Her Majesty's government are ordering their forces to cease-fire at midnight tonight." The Labor benches broke into a spontaneous cheer. Moments later, the Tories realized that, if Eden had ordered it, a cease fire must be Tory policy, and they too began belatedly to cheer...
...Cheer & Heartbreak. Lowney has fed, clothed and sheltered as many as 17 writers at one time, currently has only four in residence. But she is often disappointed. The maverick personalities she attracts-social rebels, ex-jailbirds, protesting college boys-sometimes desert the colony at the crucial moment. Says Lowney: "I've had four books just about finished here that walked out. Good books. It's heartbreaking." But she is consoled by the fact that two novels are now in progress at the colony and six completed ones are currently in the hands of publishers...
Hundreds of Ike backers crowded into the Continental to drink the HYRC free beer and to throw out an occasional cheer as the election landslide came in. The discordant sounds of the "King's Men," an instrumental quartet of sorts, mingled with the mumblings and chatterings of the 300-450 present to make the whole affair something less than a spontaneous exhibition of political enthusiasm...
...walls had been stripped bare of their posters, and the number of "Let's Back Ike" buttons had visibly diminished. When the announcement of Ike's win in Massachusetts came over the two television sets at 12:30 a.m. there were only about 120 people to offer a feeble cheer...