Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warmth and cheer in the form of the latest steel and plywood prefab huts were delivered in 5,404 enormous crates; the G.I.s started to assemble them...
...quarter of a century ago, when Claus was busy "spreading good cheer and good wishes" in a department store, he was forced for the first time to take legal action to assert his rights. The opinion of the court sets forth the situation...
Some pessimists fear that Britain's swift but short-ranged jet Comets will capture air-transport supremacy from U.S. planes. Last week, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. tried to cheer up the mourners. It showed off the first model of its "turbo-compounded" Super Constellation, a piston-type plane which will not only carry about three times as many passengers (99) as the Comet I, but cover long hauls in less elapsed time. It is the first transport, said Lockheed, which will be able to guarantee nonstop flights from New York to Europe on a regular-fare, scheduled basis...
This particular Santa goes under the alias of Joe Bradley about ten months of the year. In the mufti season, however, he still dispenses cheer as a wandering bartender. "It's like being a Santa too long in the same place," he said. "People get so they hate the sight of you. You know what they say about familiarity breeding contempt? Well, after a while they get contempt for me and I get contempt for them, so I keep moving...
...tried to cheer him up," she said later. "He was an idealist, and his whole life was devoted to the United Nations. He thought he wasn't doing his job well. He was a perfectionist...