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Word: cheerful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would know how they felt. They showered him with scrolls, letters, a gold watch and a plaque. Then, suddenly, the fun was over. "This is all very nice," said Monkey Wrench, "but all of you ought to be home studying for exams." With that, he led one last cheer and shook hands all around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fun All My Life | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...Army-Navy rivalry but also the national collegiate title. Army, favored to win the game, needed a victory to wind up ahead of Princeton on a complicated point scale; Navy could win a second-place tie with Army by an upset. Sitting plunk in the center of the Navy cheering section was Princeton's Lacrosse Coach Ferris Thomsen. He and the Middies had plenty to cheer about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Refined Baggataway | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

When Machado de Assis' Epitaph of a Small Winner was published in the U.S. last summer (TIME, July 31), reviewers set up a cheer over the strange new star caught in their literary telescopes. Acclaimed in his own land and lifetime (1839-1908) as Brazil's greatest man of letters, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis would doubtless have relished the irony of this posthumous foreign recognition for a novel whose hero is a garrulous ghost, bent on describing his own small genius for failure while alive. Dom Casmurro is a more poignant and more muted Epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brazilian Loser | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Addressed the "spring conference" of Republican women, 1,290 strong. Greeted by a flurry of waving napkins when he strode into the Presidential Room of Washington's Hotel Statler, Ike got off to a lighthearted, cheer-rousing start: "It'has been proven, I think, that the average of intelligence among women ... is a trifle higher than among men. And I can understand it, because ... a greater percentage of women [than of men] voted Republican last fall." More seriously, he said that the U.S. seeks nothing from other nations "except the decency, the respect, the consideration that America herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Into the Maelstrom | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...Cheer up, Malenkov. It looks as though Hitler and Stalin were right about the decadence of democracy. With the baseball opener down the drain, the rest shouldn't take long. Armed services appropriations and foreign aid bills will lie forgotten on the desk, or perhaps in the bottom of a golf bag. Cheer up, Kremlin. It looks like easy sailing from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foul Ball! | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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