Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considers a moral proposition. College students are given free tickets for home football games, the Boylston St. officials contend, and therefore they are obligated to see the games. Undergraduates should not stay in their rooms and listen on Saturday afternoons; they should go down to the Stadium and cheer...
When the graduation exercises ended, the other men exploded with joy, flinging their caps high into the air with a great cheer. Eugene Landy looked at them sadly, his own cap clamped tightly under his arm, then walked away...
...Great Palace of the Kremlin for another of their little practice sessions in the simulation of democracy. The 1,300-odd Communist Party Deputies were gathered in special session to hear goateed Premier Bulganin read a 10,000-word report on the summit conference at Geneva, to cheer at the right places, to follow it with a day's "debate" in which everyone would cheer or deplore what Bulganin cheered or deplored, after which everyone would vote...
...Academy was doing its best to rustle up some traditions of its own. The heraldic division of the U.S. Air Force was working on an emblem, and the academy's Athletic Association had temporarily adopted the eagle as a mascot. So far, no one had thought up a cheer, no one had composed a song. But some progress had been made with the lingo...
...Knight of the Legion of Honor." Then the general pinned on the medal and kissed him on both cheeks. This time there was no crowd to watch, but when the decorated soldier rode away from the yard in an open carnage, 200,000 people jammed the neighboring streets to cheer...