Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appropriated many deserted farms; in other areas, local committees have taken them over. Rather than carve up big farms, Ben Bella announced that he will turn them into state-owned cooperatives, but rejected Soviet-style collectivization as alien to Algerian "civilization and psychology." Even so, the prospect did not cheer many peasants, whose deepest craving is for some land of their...
...know of a single businessman who has talked in terms of a recession next year. That kind of talk has come from the economists. But you don't even hear so much of it from them any more." The automakers, of course, have more to cheer about than other businessmen: October's sales of 728,500 U.S.-made cars were the highest for any month in history (and more than 150,000 ahead of the previous high for an October, set in 1955). If the hot pace continues, the auto industry alone-which buys so much steel, copper...
...cheek; in courtly succession, he kissed the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. As he rode next to the Queen in a state landau drawn by six grey horses, a crowd of 100,000 lined the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to cheer the sailor King. Then the King was admitted to Scotland's oldest order of chivalry: along with British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, he was dubbed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle...
Advance, it seems, has become a cheer-leader for the Republican Party rather than a force for enlightened change. Why didn't it, for instance, take out after Sen. Homer Capehart, who is up for re-election in Indiana? Why don't its writers, in short, stop sounding like they inevitably will in 30 years...
Last week a Baltimore crowd began to cheer at the sight of the first Secret Service helicopter over the trees. When Kennedy eventually landed, he needed only to smile to draw a swelling roar. The motorcade drove six miles through streets lined with what Baltimore police called the biggest political crowd in the city's history-the estimate was 175.000. In the Fifth Regiment Armory, on the site of the hall in which Woodrow Wilson was nominated in 1912. Kennedy was greeted by an honor guard of Negro R.O.T.C. cadets, a band from St. Mary's School...