Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this prospect of more beef failed to cheer dapper, brisk George A. Eastwood, 65, president of Armour & Co. In words as sharp as a cleaver stroke, Eastwood told Armour stockholders that total packinghouse production would probably drop...
Highest ranking and most outspoken of German radio commentators is Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, who was retired from the Finnish front in 1941 because of illness. Last week Dittmar, finding no glimmer of cheer in the black situation, recalled the glorious career of Frederick II ("Frederick the Great") of Prussia, onetime idol and inspiration of Adolf Hitler. Frederick had fought the Seven Years' War (1756-63) against a formidable coalition-Austria, France, Russia, Sweden. Finally, with some help from England, he wore them all out. For eleven years before 1756, Frederick had built up his army, laid down immense...
...county regiments-the Dorsets, Devons, Durhams, York and Lanes-and the Scots and Welsh Border regiments marveled at this gaffer of the old Army, admired him in the usual unprintable phrases, gave him a cheer. They had fought their way through mountain jungles; tough fighting lay ahead before the last Jap would be driven from Burma. But they were in lush valleys...
...Note of Cheer. If high taxes and costs have put a ceiling on profits, businessmen may still extract one note of cheer: the same taxes may help to cushion the shock to profits when volume falls...
...Visionary. Next day it was Henry Wallace's turn. Having walked the three miles from his Wardman Park apartment hatless in a raw wind, he arrived pink-cheeked and just nine minutes late. He, too, got a cheer from the crowd-his friends, this time. He, too, got quickly to what he believed to be the point...