Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesman who had already taken his place in history beside Grant and Lee, Pershing and Farragut. The very sound of his name-after a steady diet of heroes who seemed half-ashamed of being heroes at all-seemed to leave millions with a lump in their throats and a cheer on their lips...
Rooters will find a strong pitching staff to cheer about, however. Groper, tomorrow's starter, has a smooth overhand curve and excellent control. Left-handed Dave Lanier has both a fine curve and a good fast ball. Cooke, another lefty, also shows promise...
...Alan T. Waterman was appointed last week as first director of the National Science Foundation, whose principal job is to stimulate theoretical research. U.S. scientists were sure to cheer the choice. As chief civilian scientist in the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Waterman was largely responsible for the extraordinary respect which non-Government scientists feel toward ONR. Its ultimate objective was to develop weapons, but it did not limit itself to gadgeteering. Realizing that really new weapons can grow only from new theory, it encouraged all sorts of basic research, much of it far removed from direct weapons work...
...jammed into the act on the big night. In arias from Rigoletto and Pagliacci, Mario proved to the cynics' surprise that he really has a voice. The ring and power of his high notes almost makes up for his lack of real musical taste. Called back by cheer after cheer, Mario gave them as an encore his current bestselling tune, Be My Love. That really blew a fuse; at any rate, the lights went out. The police provided an extra squad to get Mario out of the Mosque and back to his hotel. As he was leaving, a young...
While passengers on the Queen Elizabeth lined the rails before dawn to cheer them off, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife Mamie boarded a tender, headed for Cherbourg dockside. At a breakfast reception in the customs shed, the general drank a champagne toast with Cherbourg's Mayor Edmond Soufflet, recalled that his arrival this time had been considerably easier than his Normandy landing more than six years ago, added seriously: "With God's help, and with all of us working together, we can keep peace." The general then boarded a plane for Paris and his new duties...