Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They offend the dignity and the autonomy of our republic. Dear friend, it is a very bitter pill." The republic had to swallow it. At week's end, San Marino restored its law against gambling, shut up its casino. Demo-Christian Leader Teodoro Lonfernini found a little to cheer him: "We may not have much money, but at least we have had a good housecleaning...
...amateur female cyclist, one of the few, rare and odd species of animal known to man, I wish to praise, commend and cheer your brief but wonderful July 16 article on the beginning of the Tour de France...
...minimum 65 m.p.h. speed in his blue-grey Quicksilver, a sleek, new, 31-foot hydroplane. Devil-may-care Mathiot, a Portland, Ore. tugboat operator, was not really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup. Neither were Seattle's boat-racing fans, who turned out at nearby Lake Washington to cheer their hometown entry, Slo-Mo-Shun V, which set two records in the first of three final runs -97.826 m.p.h. for a three-mile lap, 91.766 m.p.h. for the 30-mile heat...
Died. William Henry ("Wild Bill") Kiekhofer, 68, economist, author (An Outline of Economics), former head of the University of Wisconsin's economics department, whose wild shock of white hair earned him his nickname and whose famed lectures were traditionally greeted with a skyrocket cheer; after long illness; in Madison...
...usually reserved for Presidents. From his private car, the general caught glimpses of fluttering flags and handkerchiefs as he clipped through commuter stations along the way. Boston turned out in midafternoon to greet him as though he were just home from the wars; 20,000 packed Dewey Square to cheer his arrival and half a million lined the route of the triumphal motorcade...