Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote in Oregon, and maybe more. We need about 20,000 votes more to win. I wouldn't be surprised if we'd pick them up. Anybody who writes off Goldwater is nuts." As for Dick Nixon, his Oregon friends professed an uncommon amount of cheer over a telegram that was, if nothing else, cautiously worded. "I shall look forward to working with you in the final campaign," Nixon wired, "in whatever role our convention decides I can best serve the cause...
According to tradition, and tradition is very important in this sort of thing, one does not presume to have critical opinions about the Hasty Pudding Show. You go to it in resplendent dress, get slightly tipsy, see your friends and make sure they see you, cheer lustily for the chorus "girls" to show more thigh, and leave reassured that the Pudding is still the Pudding even though Harvard may be going to a democratic hell...
...Cyprus itself, the partisans managed for the most part to keep their itchy gun fingers in check last week. Hundreds of Communist sympathizers poured out to Nicosia Airport to cheer a Soviet plane that swooped in for a test landing; it was preparing the way for the civil air agreement that is being negotiated between Cyprus and its new Russian ally. Inevitably, it raised the question of Soviet penetration in Cyprus should the current stalemate break down. Apart from this, Archbishop Makarios made people nervous by announcing his intention to create a force of special volunteer police, 5,000 strong...
...been unusually devoted to his mother; Nellie simply moved into his room so he could stay home with mom. Thus, to his intense satisfaction, he had two mothers. He still found jobs hard to come by, so Nellie went to work as a clerk to buy him clothes and cheer him up with pocket money...
...year passes, and in the first creative act of his life, Mr. Stone suggests to the head of his firm a scheme for keeping in touch with retired employees, sending the more active ones to visit the bedridden with small gifts and words of cheer. He sees it simply as "protection for the old." But the company sees it as grand public relations and names it the "Knights Companion" scheme, putting Mr. Stone in charge...