Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...footer with a long jaw and a penchant for exposing it, Safetyman Wilson is the defensive captain, cheer leader ("He's an inspirational player," says Winner), and key man in a blitz happy defense that is the main reason the Cards lead the league...
Thoroughbred race horses are not noted for the sweetness of their dispositions. But Kelso, winner of an alltime record $1,977,896 before his retirement last March, was as gentle as a lamb. Kids fed him sugar; a chocolate sundae would cheer him up if he'd lost a race; and everybody loved him so much that his owner, Mrs. Richard du Pont, gave him a mailbox at the barn to handle all the fan letters. Now nine, the magnificent gelding is taking his ease, jogging around Mrs.du Font's Maryland farm, treating her to early-morning canters...
...gloomy groups of three or four, as early returns indicated that the convention-endorsed Democratic ticket was taking the worst beating in memory. Their candidate for governor, 37-year-old A. M. (Sandy) Keith, entered the room shortly after 11 p.m., and the faithful desperately attempted a raucous cheer. Keith smiled gamely as he conceded defeat, but his wife had obviously been crying...
...time, it seemed, since the flood, there were real tears in the old battler's eyes, as a schoolgirl presented a bouquet of 80 roses on the parade route outside Jerusalem. Then his car inched slowly forward, as a crowd of some 50,000 gave a rousing birthday cheer to Israel's ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion. "I am only 20," B-G said wistfully. "Four times 20." Though most Israelis were feeling sentimental about their nation's grand old man, Premier Levi Eshkol was not. Having feuded with Ben-Gurion almost since the day he succeeded...
...centennial bells ring out, wildly, in the tiny outport churches of Newfoundland, in the cathedrals of Quebec City, in Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, in prairie steeples and out to the West Coast, they will ring in a 100th year that Canadians should indeed find a cause for cheer. In the sound and fury of the centennial celebrations, Canadians are bound to hear echoes of their own success in turning the wilderness into a thriving nation...