Word: cheerfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring cheer: "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everybody for the Farm Bureau stand up and holler-Yeah!" They cheered again when he lambasted Charlie Brannan's plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they...
...ingredients were there, however. The thousands who piled off special trains, buses, and planes headed immediately for the liquor dispensaries. And the Yalies and their guests then jammed the steps of the Freshman Commons to cheer Herman Hickman, Levi Jackson, the Eli team, and God and country...
Toward the end of the rally, Harvard men lurking in the shadows stepped forward and tried to drown out the proceedings with songs and a cheer: "What do we eat? Dog meat...
...scheme straightened out. Said he: "We'd be pretty damn fools if we had to present another financial report like this next year!" Subordinating his distaste for Labor planning to his fervent support of empire development, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had a Churchillian message of cheer to Plummer: "The whole harsh picture is a stimulus to resolution and skill, an appeal to the nation's grit...
...wonderful party. With an assist from some of the 14,000 bottles of wine and vodka Stalin had sent down to Yalta, F.D.R., Churchill and Uncle Joe were letting their hair down. They were further cheered because they had closed some pretty big deals. The next day, Feb. 11, 1945, the Crimean Conference would be over. Reminiscing, F.D.R. told the others how his recovery program had prevented disorder, maybe even revolution in the U.S. Churchill observed that Russia's one-party system made politics easy for Stalin, and Uncle Joe allowed that one party was a great convenience. Perhaps...