Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd for a ball game. Most of the audience, which sat sullenly in its seats nibbling popcorn, seemed to favor Princeton. A good many were Nassau expatriates doing graduate work here. Sailors attended in scattered clumps and watched the proceedings with mixed feelings. Service pride demanded that they cheer for their future officers most of the time but when things went awry for Annapolis they weren't terribly sorry. After all, officers are officers...
...showed up at five different white schools, asked to be admitted because their own schools did not have equal facilities. The principals all refused. ¶ The University of North Carolina's first Negro students found that they were free to eat and study with whites, but not to cheer. At football games, they were barred from the cheering section, herded into special end-zone seats...
...told, about ten thousand students in our fair university which every day seems to assume more and more the aspect of a crimson funeral parlor. It's a funny thing, but my Chem 1 course has more noise and people than the group which braved the moonlit evening to cheer our boys to victory tonight. How do we expect fight in a football team when the cheering section has the semblance of a professional mourners' society...
Giant searchlights flashed a great V in the skies, and a cheer rang out as a further bulletin announced: "The King has gained strength during the day." For the time being no more details were issued by Palace authorities or Surgeon Clement Price Thomas, the 57-year-old Welsh chest specialist who performed the operation. Britons were still as much in the dark over the exact nature of the King's illness as they had been when the doctors first spoke of "structural changes" in his lung. The nature of the operation (resection is the removal of the whole...
...Rites of Fall On football Saturdays many a football fan finds a spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...