Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio to decry the "miserably inadequate" research facilities provided by the government. Liberal Party Chief Jo Grimond pointed to the low prestige that Britain grants its intellectuals. "The citizens of Konigsberg rang church bells when Immanuel Kant recovered from a cold," he said. "Here nobody even gave one cheer for our scientists until they started to leave the country...
Back in The Netherlands, the royal party sped to the white Soestdijk Palace east of Amsterdam. When they reached it, 5,000 Dutchmen were waiting in prickly silence. Then the crowd raised a mighty cheer and surged through the gates behind their limousines, singing the Dutch birthday anthem, "Long may she live, hip, hip, hurray...
...Sugar, No Mills. But after five years of Fidel, there was nothing to cheer about in a Cuban economy sinking steadily lower with little hope of improvement. Mismanagement and a catastrophic October hurricane reduced the 1963 sugar crop to 3.8 million tons-lowest in 20 years and half the size of the pre-Castro harvest. This year, according to U.S. estimates, the crop will run only to 4,000,000 tons-barely enough to meet Cuba's Iron Curtain commitments. Russia had promised to deliver 3,500 automatic cane loaders and build 500 more in Cuba. As of last...
...DEMANDS CTI ON CL IN GBA, announced the headlines in Rio news papers. Too much bottled cheer in the composing room? Not at all. As savvy Brazilians saw at a glance, it was the perfectly normal way of saying that President Joao Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party demanded a parliamentary investigation into the actions of Governor Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara state. In their casual conversations, Brazilians can be just as cryptic, leaving the befuddled stranger convinced that, letter for letter, Brazil is the world's most overalphabetized nation...
...long-shot combination can bring back more than $1,200. And each year 1,400,000 fans pour $41 million into the frontons' pari-mutuel machines (the state's cut: $2,300,000). Lounging behind a protective wire screen, the fans sip daiquiris and cheer wildly for players whose names they cannot pronounce. "Come on, Choo Choo!" they yell to Churruca, an acrobatic Basque whose specialty is running straight up a side wall to pick off a pelota 15 ft. above the floor. "Attababy, Orby!" they scream to Orbea, who can slam the ball into the front wall...