Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Action. The Congressman plans to run this year on an anti-Administration platform, although he is not yet sure that he would be wise to attack the President personally. Says he: "You can cuss Eisenhower, and people get sore. You can say the Administration stinks, and they cheer." The Kansan voted only about 35% pro-Eisenhower last year, and his showing this year will be about the same. For a while, he planned to vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Said he: "It won't make five votes difference in my district whether I vote for or against...
...long visit to Australia and New Zealand. Britain's globe-girdling Queen Elizabeth last week stopped to pay a brief call on one of her quietest realms: Cocos Islands, a tiny atoll lying 800 miles south of Singapore in the Indian Ocean. In happy contrast to the wildly cheering crowds that greeted her elsewhere, Elizabeth's Cocosian subjects, gathered 560 strong on Home Island, stood in dignified silence as she stepped ashore with her husband. Clad, men and women alike, in sarongs and transparent ceremonial jackets, they waved little Union Jacks and smiled shyly until...
When a certified intellectual leads a long cheer for the U.S.-and moreover invites the jeers of his fellows by calling his book God's Country and Mine-it amounts to a conscious act of courage. French-born Jacques Barzun, 46, professor of history at Columbia University, has some reservations about his adopted country. The subtitle of his book is "A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words." But even after his grudging left hand has taken away some of what his generous right has dished out. God's Country still comes as a welcome antidote...
British Conservatives gave a cautious cheer last week. In two by-elections, their candidates won handsomely. Both seats are Tory strongholds: the Arundel & Shoreham district of West Sussex is a rich man's garden, and Harrogate is a Yorkshire spa packed with retired gentlefolk. But in face of the traditional loss of popularity of the party in power, the Tories won a higher percentage of the vote than they had in the 1951 election. That made it seven by-elections in a row (six of them Tory victories) in which the Tories have increased their 1951 percentages...
...Latin American feeling against the Colossus of the North. Though the Latin statesmen for the most part could see the intellectual force of Dulles' arguments, the fact was that deep in their hearts many of them resented such forceful U.S. leadership. Emotionally, they were prepared to cheer any David brash enough to give Goliath a symbolic kick in the pants...