Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorker and other magazines, he shows no evidence of age-except perhaps an amiable trace of second adolescence. He wages the war between the sexes as briskly as ever ("Woman's place is in the wrong"), heartily belabors "the child-overwhelmed culture," trenchantly elucidates the principle of "negative cheerfulness" ("One statistician not long ago tried to cheer us all with his estimate that only 18 million people, not 50 million, would be killed here in a nuclear war"). He bristles with useless information ("Curmudgeon seems to derive from the French coeur mé-chant") and daffy definitions...
...picture a devoted fan when, in the 162nd game of the season, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees (or maybe Ted Kluszewski of the Los Angeles Angels) whales his 61st home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60, which has endured since 1927. He won't know whether to cheer or to shoot himself, and as he alternately chokes on and cries in his beer, he will curse the nouveau riche who made things...
Mayor Robert Wagner, with up-for-re-election-year cheer, had announced the neat trick of balancing this budget with no increase in tax rates and no new taxes...
...home fans got a chance to cheer when Tiger Tom Welch won the 200-yard backstroke in 2:06.1. after a battle with Bob Boni and Alan Cunningham of Yale. Welch's time was a new meet mark, but wasn't even near the pool record of 2:04.5, held by Princeton freshman Jed Graff...
...cheer was restored to the room as Mrs. Khrushchev came through the door, wearing one of her fashion-setting dresses by GUM, and followed by her daughter, a vivacious, plump girl...