Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Windows shook in Tel Aviv, 20 minutes away to the west. At Kalkilya shells rained both on the fort and the town, killing a nursing infant, his brother, an old woman. By 4:20 the Israelis finally pulled out. This time when they crossed the border they did not cheer or sing their mambo tunes...
...pledge to Britain to behave as a private citizen, Oxford-educated Seretse did nothing to encourage the welcoming demonstration. But he had no need to. Women swarmed to kiss the hood of his car. Men flung themselves in the dusty road before it or clambered on its fenders to cheer their chief. All along the hot, dusty, 140-mile drive to Serowe, the roads were lined with cheering, weeping Bamangwato, and the capital itself was thronged with tribesmen who had waited since dawn without food or water to shout their welcome. Even Seretse's own attempts to halt...
...slinging an electrician over the stage in a bosun's chair to handle overhead spots, later installed the first permanent lighting bridge (The Music Box Revue, 1921), and the first revolving stage (The Band Wagon, 1931), startled Broadway by staging the Easter parade scene in As Thousands Cheer (1933) in rotogravure brown...
...certainly not the whole truth about Texas. And in the film, though Director George Stevens has pulled some of Author Ferber's wilder punches. Texans will probably still find plenty to holler about. But moviegoers in other parts of the world will surely find even more to cheer at. In the hand of a master moviemaker. Giant has been transformed from a flashy bestseller into a monumental piece of social realism...
...Whitehall in 1915. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill and War Secretary Lord Kitchener concluded it would be a good idea to send the tleet to force the Dardanelles. It would cheer the Russians ; it would get Russian grain ships through to Britain; and it would break the bloody stalemate of trench warfare on the Western front. Only Admiral Sir John Fisher had forebodings. ''Damn the Dardanelles," he said. "They will be our grave...