Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forth-Without Cheer...
...royal yacht Britannia, was still dreamily island-hopping in the Caribbean amidst calypso rhythms, dusky skins and steel bands. Landing at Dominica, largest of the Windward Islands, Margaret and Tony had hoped to motor about quietly. But the islanders-some 5,000 of them-turned out in force to cheer them and present the princess with a bouquet as wild as her unruly locks. The half-royal couple will return to Britain next week, leaving behind a wistful rumor that Margaret may be the next Governor General of the two-year-old West Indies Federation...
...showed up in the courtroom wearing white ribbons that proclaimed: I AM A SATISFIED LENDER TO JOHN MILTON ADDISON (he was acquitted). Twice, in the past five months, his satisfied lenders gave $200-a-plate dinners for him. They have also turned out regularly for revival-style meetings to cheer him on in his fight against "the interests." Typical performance: "You understand I can take your money and tear it up, burn it, throw it away, or spend it on wild, wild women-don't you?" (Screams of "Yes!") "And you want it that...
...speech at East Berlin's Seelenbinder Hall, Nikita Khrushchev had a handpicked, wildly cheering audience of 8,000 Communists. Standing beneath a banner reading END THE PROVOCATIONS OF EISENHOWER AND ADENAUER, Nikita cried, "There was perfidy on the part of the American President. I repeat the word perfidy-there is no other word for it." Then he stood by, frowning, while an interpreter read the remainder in German. A strange note of resignation ran through it. His new theme: wait, and take it easy. He complained darkly about U.S. militarists, but added, "We will wait for negotiations...
...minds of their people." When in France, he wrote that England "is a country which knows well how to handle a king." Straight Bourbon was too much for his republican stomach, and there were other unpleasant things about France-"a strange country made up of dirt and gilding, good cheer and soupe maigre, bedbugs and laces...