Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact. But what is much more worrisome is what he was thinking last night while he was mouthing such nothings. Not one specific issue or controversy was mentioned in the Senator's speech. It was obvious, however, that his supporters were thinking of specifics when they gave the largest cheer of the evening to Goldwater's pronouncement that "extremism in the pursuit of freedom is not necessarily a vice...
Zapo (Dustin Hoffman) is Momma's boy draftee at a lonely outpost whose parents come to cheer him up in the midst of battle. They are joined at their picnic by a similarly uncourageous enemy soldier, and the plot can hardly go anywhere from there...
...Norwegians had had enough of Nikita Khrushchev even before he arrived. Television had shown the Russian Premier touring Sweden and Denmark, had reported his boorish belittling of Danish farming and his sneering remarks on Swedish defenses. When he clambered onto the quay in Oslo, a ragged cheer broke out from assembled Iron Curtain diplomats-but not from the 3,000 curious Norwegians who had gathered to examine the visitor. One little old lady was moved to waggle her umbrella at Khrushchev and shout "Murderer" until a manners-minded policeman placed his white-gloved hand firmly over her mouth...
...concession to his convalescence, he did not travel in his usual speedy Citroen limousine; instead, he decided on a two-car diesel train, which could move him in greater comfort to the rural reaches of France's north. At his first scheduled stop, Soissons, a mighty cheer went up as he stepped before the throng at the Hotel de Ville. He knew as well as they that the Picardy farmers had been protesting angrily against low agricultural prices, so he permitted himself a moment of what for him was consider able levity. Apologizing for having canceled an earlier trip...
...elegant agora of the new suburbia, the font of everything from Kix to Cheer, and the source of no small amount of corn - including the gag about the housewife whose shopping cart does $40 an hour. The American housewife thinks nothing of spending an average $1,200 a year in the super market. Altogether, U.S. food stores do a $60 billion-a-year business, as much as the steel and auto industries wrapped together...