Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having downed two half-kegs of beer in and hour and a half, the milling participants tried to cheer themselves up further by telling each other, "We're not losing by much," and "We're bound to win somewhere." The most spirited reaction of the evening was a loud hiss for Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall who was televised singing "Our boy is bound to score...
...toward him in the state. They told him not to expect much of a reception, to be prepared for small turnouts and open hostility. When he rode into Hartford's Bushnell Park at noon one October day a crowd of some 8,000 was there to greet and cheer him. Connecticut G.O.P. leaders were amazed; Nixon was reassured...
...Senator George Bender happily grabbed Nixon's coattails, crying, "Ohio loves Dick Nixon." It seemed to. At Defiance a crowd equal to a third of the town's population (12,500) turned out to hear him; in Warren more than 30,000 people lined the streets to cheer. The crowds and the confidence were growing...
...detect any signs of malaise. Montevideans looked well-fed, as usual, and stores were crowded with customers. Perhaps in no other Latin American capital were sidewalks so conspicuously free of beggars and ragamuffins. The faces in the crowd, as big-city crowds go, showed a high average of cheer...
...Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting. I do not recall elsewhere movement, gestures or expressions so real or so lifelike...