Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of the two-day trip, Kennedy-and the trackside crowds-warmed to the oldfashioned whistle-stop idea. In tiny Dunsmuir, deep in the shadows of 14,000-ft. Mount Shasta, 500 chilly citizens and a tiny burro greeted the candidate and the new day with a rousing cheer that echoed up the canyon. At Redding the sun was warmer, and 1,500 citizens lined up under a fringe of trees along the siding while Kennedy trotted out the old nostalgia ("I follow here in 1960 the same trail Harry Truman took in 1948 when he came down this valley...
...businessmen last week anxiously looked for signs of a fall upsurge, there were few sights to cheer them. Stock buyers took such a doleful view that the Dow-Jones industrial average suffered an 8.58-point drop to 612.27-its sharpest one-day decline in more than six months -before steadying and rising at week's end. Best news came from retailers helped by record sales of back-to-school clothing and heavy traffic in auto supplies and small appliances. Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Spiegel both reported that August sales soared to alltime peaks for that month. Though the auto...
...there any cheer in the latest Labor Department jobless figures. They showed 3,788,000 unemployed in August. More important, unemployment did not decline as steeply as it should have between July and August, and the seasonally adjusted percentage of unemployed rose from 5.4% in July to 5.9% in August-the highest percentage since the steel strike last fall. Employment in August, though it set an alltime high for the month with 68,282,000 working, actually involved a working force that was 407,000 fewer than in July...
...mind starts wandering." One speaker described a survey he had made indicating that 36.9% of India's people suffer from boredom, 49.7% from blighted hopes, 26.7% from emotional depression, 6.4% from sexual frustration, 49.9% from "a polluted and unwholesome atmosphere." A girl from New Delhi won the biggest cheer of the day with her complaint that "it's not her age, her beauty or her other qualifications" that win a young woman a job, "but just how far she is prepared to accommodate her boss...
...funds, to charge that Premier Somsanith had "exchanged our country for American money." He called for a neutralist policy 'leaning toward neither the free world nor Communism," and demanded the ouster of the 125-man U.S. military training mission. Hopefully, he added: "I suggest everybody clap and cheer...