Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Itch. Before her British debut in Manchester last week, the public was as skeptical as the musicians of the L.P.O. had been. The hall was less than half full. But at the end of the performance, most of the audience stood up to cheer. Two nights later, 6,000 Londoners watched and listened while Gianella guided the orchestra with professional aplomb. Gianella started badly, muffing the opening bars of the overture to Der Freischütz, but soon found herself. Then came Haydn's Symphony No. 73-with Gianella and the L.P.O. outdoing themselves-and the Tannhäuser...
...NOTE: Cheer up, fellers, these prophesies seldom mean a thing...
...student council of the Union High School in Redwood City, Calif, formally banished girls from a field they had come to dominate: cheer leading. Reasons: 1) girls don't have the authority to control rooters; 2) girls don't know enough about the subtleties of sport to know when to lead a cheer; 3) girls are too shrill; and 4) the boys want to get into...
...commodity markets, where falling prices have worried the Administration, there was some cheer last week. Wholesale pork prices went up and beef prices steadied. As dust storms whipped the winter-wheat areas of the Southwest, wheat prices scooted up 4½ to 6½? a bushel; corn, helped by news that the Government would step up purchases, also moved higher. The rally in grain prices was the best in two months...
...proverbial straw came during 1948, when 10,000 Jews flocked to the square in front of Moscow's Great Synagogue to cheer the Israeli Ambassador, Russian-born Mrs. Golda Myerson. Exasperated secret police promptly put the Israeli embassy under a sort of diplomatic house arrest and prevented Russian Jewry from having any dealings with it. Beria then started to climinate all remaining Jewish institutions in Russia...