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Word: cheerful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unchanging as always, however, is that Word of Cheer passed from one friend to the other before the grip of schedule and test tightens again. Although the snow may have at first frightened the Spring Term optimist, awakened like the Freshman who has overslept an exam, he is now reassured and ready to pass along advice. The new term does, in fact, promise more than the resulting slush and returned exams. If all goes well, there will be as many disarmament plans as there are new atomic weapons, and Marlon Brando will not sell his motorcycle. In all events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . Le Deluge | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...which makes it possible for the anti-Communists to band together and beat a Communist in runoff elections. The other big parties like Catholic M.R.P. and the Socialists, which depend more on doctrine than on local appeal, are not confident enough of the strength of their individual candidates to cheer for the change. For Mendès-France and his followers, however, the change seems a way to upset party strangle holds and prepare the way to the new "grouping of the left" which Mendèsites prescribe for a healthier, more dependable France (TIME, Jan. 10). But French governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man on Vacation | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...confirm the Premier's words, hundreds of university students gathered spontaneously outside the U.S. embassy in Rome to cheer. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, who had gone to the island of Sardinia, got word of the student demonstration and sent a message of thanks, ending with the words: "Long Live Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Resounding Yes | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...spite of the approaching season of holiday cheer, television's week began like a vast coast-to-coast autopsy. March of Medicine performed a gory operation on a man's heart artery in front of the TV cameras. Medic, sounding less and less like a Dragnet-in-bandages and more and more like daytime soap opera, told a pathetic story about a young girl with breast cancer. Robert Montgomery presented a full hour of smilin' through muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis. But while he recuperated, the televiewer was able to find cheerier fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Review of the Week | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...been able to do much for the Order in the last year due to the deplorable necessity of writing a book . . . The book will be published on Sept. 8th and all members of the Order will observe a moment of silence. The password will be: 'Don't cheer, boys. The poor readers are dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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