Word: cheerful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First surprise of the evening was the presence of Mayor John B. Hynes, his first appearance since the Boston election. Attorney General Francis Kelly followed Hynes onto the stage and was cheered as what the master of ceremonies called "a militant worker." Then came Budenz himself, a balding little man in a neat blue suit. Mayor Hynes, as he stepped up to the mike to say hello, suddenly whipped out an envelope and presented Budenz with the keys to the city--"in the name of the citizens of Boston." The entire audience stood up to cheer and Louis Budenz started...
...South African player ever made in a test match. But later, at Old Trafford, the Manchester cricket ground, Rowan made a different kind of sensation. When the crowd decided, he was "stonewalling" (i.e., batting a wholly defensive game), it gave him cricket's equivalent of a Bronx cheer-slow, rhythmic handclaps. Infuriated, Rowan sat down on the "pitch" (the ground between the two wickets), and signaled his batting partner to do the same until the "barracking" died down...
Over 1200 undergraduates were so upset by the Centre loss that they jammed the Union Tuesday night for a gigantic "Support the Team Rally" and marched to the Stadium on Wednesday to cheer the squad in practice before it left for Princeton. It didn't do much good. Harvard lost...
Eight key members of his new cabinet were with him, and each one drew a separate cheer as he came out. To his admirers, it was another reassuring sign that Churchill had chosen as his aides many of the same men who had served with him through the war (see box), and that he had made himself Minister of Defense as well as Prime Minister-a clear sign that he intended to take full charge...
...Egyptian leaders/last week issued a firm ban on mass demonstrations, and ordered police to enforce it. Thousands tested the ban in Alexandria and Cairo, coursing through the streets and breaking into shops. Police dispersed them with clubs, tear gas and gunfire. A mob descended on the Russian legation to cheer the Soviet.Union, but the cops also broke that up. Workers who tried to rush a police station in the Canal Zone were shooed away. The Egyptian army was carefully kept out of contact with the British Suez forces, which had shown no reluctance to shoot when first they met, last...