Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cheer up! And whistle a happy tune...
...hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into town, and there delivered a fiery, fist-shaking speech in a plaza ringed by royal palms and mango trees. "Five centuries ago millions of Incas lived well in Peru," he cried. "There is no reason we cannot do better today!" "APRA, APRA!" screamed the crowd...
What was striking about Kennedy's trip to New Orleans was not his speech, but the reception he got. Louisianians greeted him at the airport with waving flags and blaring bands. Some 200.000 including children out of school for the day lined the streets to cheer him as he passed by in the motorcade, and great numbers of them were still waiting on the sidewalks after he finished his speech, to cheer him again as he rode back toward the heart of town...
...need money," he announced to a chorus of hisses and a piercing elephant call. Then the audience started throwing coins. Someone led a cheer for Sonits. Russin led a cheer for Harvard...
...books of verse include "The Cr "Bay Window Ballads," and "Odd Without End." A new volume of poems for children. "Take Sky," will published next fall. His anthology British and American humerous called "What Cheer" has been called best such collection over printed...