Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final batter worked Erskine to a full 3-ball, 2-strike count before meekly grounding out. First-Base Umpire Bill Stewart had hardly made his dramatic thumb-up "out" gesture before the whole Dodger team poured out from diamond and dugout to crowd around grinning Carl Erskine and cheer the most sparkling pitching performance Ebbets Field had ever seen...
...Dallas, where such Hollywood rooters as Producer David O. Selznick and Cinemactor Ronald Reagan tried to cheer up some 1,000 low-grossing movie exhibitors at a morale meeting, Evangelist Billy Graham popped in with an idea for curing the industry's ailments. Cried Graham: "Take sex and crime out of the movies. We've had so much sex in this country till we're sick to death of it. That's why people stay away. Decent people are ashamed...
Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni had the biggest personal triumph, mesmerized the audience with his singing and acting as the Swiss hero: when he fired his crossbow and the apple on his son's head split with a stage-trick snap, there was a loud and relieved cheer...
Most of the audience listened with caution in Act I, but by Act II they were applauding enthusiastically. At the end, they gave Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos and the cast ten curtain calls. Further, in a rare personal tribute, a crowd lingered outside to cheer the conductor again after the performance...
...Communist side of the belt, at a rally in Leipzig of 100,000 members of the Free German Youth, blue-shirted German youngsters gathered beneath the strident flags and posters of Communism to cheer the "glorious Soviet army" and sing their newest song: Get Your Gluts, Comrades. East Germany, the Russians were assured, is doing everything possible "to develop the military qualifications of our youth." Meanwhile "police" recruiting was stepped up. East German factories were ordered to stop hiring men under 25. These were encouraged to join the police...