Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tovarish. Mobs crowded Nob Hill in San Francisco to cheer Khrushchev as he arrived at his hotel. Happily he waved back, reappeared at his hotel window to bask in the spontaneous welcome. "You have charmed me," he glowed at a civic dinner-and added, without the customary clangor, "but you have charmed my heart, not my mind. I still think that our system is a good system...
...that most Americans know vaguely as the land of the Mau Mau. What the Kenyans knew about the U.S. was more specific: scholarships totaling some $100,000 were sending them to 52 colleges and universities, from Howard to Hawaii. The event was not one to make British colonial officials cheer...
...thousands lined his route to the American Memorial Chapel at St. Paul's Cathedral, waving, some shouting "We like Ike!" and "Welcome!" In Paris, the crowds were restrained behind the official pomp and glitter, but cries for "Eek" followed him everywhere. The Scots came for miles to cheer him, even though he had slipped into Prestwick Airport only for a weekend's golf and relaxation. As he slowed down at week's end to reflect on the unprecedented tour, reporters could tell that he was richly happy and well pleased with the whole thing...
...rubber boats powered by out board motors, and Red patrols pushed within seven miles of Samneua City, telling villagers that it was futile for them to flee to the provincial capital since it would be in Communist hands in a matter of days. General Amkha seemed to agree. To cheer up his downcast aides, he cracked: "I am more afraid of Tokyo taxicabs than of the Communists." But his seven battalions, numbering more than 4,000 men, were dispersed in the surrounding countryside, and he apparently had no intention of making a do-or-die stand in the city...
Ethereal root and cheer...