Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From cheering Novosibirsk, Nixon moved on to Sverdlovsk, where the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, then drove deep into the Urals to visit a copper mine and Russia's largest tube and pipe plant. At every log-cabin village and dusty crossroads, hundreds of peasants gathered to wave and cheer Nixon-and they stayed on for hours to do the same for the caravan of reporters and U.S. officials strung out along the road behind...
...though the Roman Catholic Church and the Polish farmer enjoy a degree of freedom unparalleled behind the Iron Curtain, faithful Communist Gomulka had led his nation's policies safely back into the arms of Moscow. Now Khrushchev was back, and everywhere party workers had crowds organized to cheer and applaud him. "I am an old man," said Nikita Khrushchev, 65, rambling on in lengthy speeches, "and when I am allowed to talk, I talk...
When British Socialists in 1955 picked Hugh Gaitskell, now 53, to succeed the retiring Clement Attlee as head of the party, they applauded, but they did not cheer. The sad fact was that the longtime heir apparent, chirpy Herbert Morrison, was too old to take over. And the idol of the left, Aneurin Bevan, seemed too hotheaded. A compromise choice, Gaitskell found himself heading a party whose old-time religion had lost much of its appeal and whose leaders were perpetually torn between accommodating the conservative labor unions and the radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal...
...climbed into the ring for a few friendly rounds with brother Rolf, an amateur boxer. At Osthammar, some 3,000 fans crowded in (at $1 a head) to watch in vain for The Punch, chuckle at the champ's cries ("Throw me some mosquito oil"), and cheer happily when the referee solemnly declared him the winner...
Rubens but a house big enough to hang it in. The British press, who had been worrying out loud that such a "national" treasure would be snatched away by a rich American, let out a patriotic cheer...