Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of a posse. Little organized a "postcard shower" from Press readers to cheer up the jailed Texan, helped newspapers in Conley's home town of Amarillo raise a $5,500 fund for his legal defense. Last week, after 37 months in jail, Texan Conley was back home with eight-year-old daughter Lynette, aided in part by the decision of a Massachusetts judge to let Texas settle the custody question...
...people did not exult. There was little to cheer about, and the nation did not delude itself...
...difficult" musical form, chamber music. It finds that its layman-language explanations work very well with listeners of all ages, and just as well with the Bartok and Schoenberg in their repertory as with the classics. When the performance is finished, the quartet usually gets a rousing cheer from a young audience, plus such probing questions as "What is the white stuff you put on the bows?" (rosin), and "Why doesn't the music have titles instead of just numbers...
...Senate Republicans, and Democrats, too, found cheer in a bulletin from New York Hospital: "Senator Taft's condition is good. [He] fully expects to resume public duty in Washington when Congress convenes in January...
Partly, Colombians cheer easygoing General Rojas because he is such a welcome contrast to the gloomy and oppressive Gómez. Partly, they like his inspiring promises: "The armed forces will continue being . . . the jealous and disinterested guardians of the democratic survival of our institutions." Partly, they approve his decisive acts. In the last month...