Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the plane,, "Puerto Rico," he said into the inevitable microphones, "serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America. You have served to make it easier for us to understand each other." Along the ten-mile route into San Juan, 200,000 lined the streets to cheer, toss streamers and shower confetti. Proclaimed the banners: "Welcome, Uncle Kennedy...
Several loyal Harvard rooters will be on hand to cheer the team away from home; at least 150 Crimson fans--headed by the Harvard Club of Minneapolis--have reserved a cheering section at each game...
...speeches against a truncated Lowell. "No matter how thin you slice it," cried one Spears critic, "this will not be an academic high school." After nearly 40 speeches from the floor, the board of education voted 6 to 1 in favor of an undistricted new Lowell. A great cheer shook the hall...
Towards the end of each meal in the evening the veilleur de nuit drops in for his bit of cheer.... He is a nobody. He carries a lantern and a bunch of keys. He makes the rounds through the night, stiff as an automaton... In the scheme of things he's not worth the brine to pickle a herring. He's just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole...
...calm and determined U.S. in Berlin. He has toured East Berlin, passed through the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint, examined the Wall with minute care. He helicoptered to Steinstücken, a little enclave just over the West Berlin border that nevertheless belongs to the U.S. sector. Everywhere West Berliners cheer him. All this is calculated to show that the U.S. will not be pushed around by the Russians. "If we are pushed around and harassed," says Clay, "we have to do a bit of pushing and harassing ourselves...