Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to thank your readers, those good people who prayed for us, sent clothing and gifts and wrote letters of cheer and encouragement for Ronnie's recovery...
Until the shooting, the people had never, given Gamal Abdel Nasser the affection they gave his pipe-smoking predecessor, General Naguib. Now, as Nasser's train passed through the delta cities, returning to Cairo, huge crowds spontaneously came out to cheer him. At the Cairo railway station, 100,000 people surged against police lines crying, "God bless Gamal." Besieged by admirers reaching out to embrace him, the Premier needed two hours to make what was ordinarily a ten-minute drive to his office. Eight wild shots had served him well...
...loveliest music ever played since jazz was born. They listen in garish cellars and august concert halls. They listened last summer in Los Angeles' Zardi's, last month in Boston's Storyville and Manhattan's Basin Street, and a fortnight ago they listened and cheered him in Carnegie Hall. Last week they listened in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis as the Brubeck Quartet swung through the Midwest (as part of a jazz-concert package). Not everybody likes Brubeck's intense, quiet music; a lot of Bourbon drinkers still prefer the wilder, louder jazz that thrives...
...outpouring of third-quarter earnings reports last week, most companies found plenty to cheer about. Even where sales were off, the drop was so heavily cushioned by the cut in taxes this year, that in most cases net profits held up well. Of the 600-odd corporations that had reported by last week, almost half racked up substantial gains over the third quarter of prosperous 1953. As a result, many a corporation increased its dividends or handed out extras...
...democratic party can draw much cheer from its victory it is not because the President's program has been repudiated. It has not: the Democrats failed to win as many seats as an opposition usually does at mod-term. But they can celebrate their right to organize Congress...