Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radioactive cloud drifted eastward. A thick, dense column of dust reached into the sky behind it; below, a flat lake dust covered vast acres of desert. An hour passed before Army helicopters brought surprisingly chipper G.I.s from the trenches. Only two miles from Ground Zero, heat and light had passed over them as they crouched face down. The grey dust cloud they saw later, they were told was not dangerously radioactive. They had learned the lesson that atom bombs may spare careful soldiers who keep their distance and are well...
...cactus hedges and straw huts, with fanatical young Communists in brown homespun clothing shouting "La dai" (Come and get us). The legionnaires got them. On the river, naval units sank six barges full of Viet Minh soldiers and equipment. Four-star General Raoul Sa-lan, who has been consistently chipper, even on the eve of past setbacks, boasted: "The future of our military actions is now secured...
Only three days before the Mossadegh government fell, Richardson had been in Teheran, talking with important political figures. All assured him things were now quiet in Iran, says Richardson, "including Mossadegh himself, who sat up in bed looking chipper and confident." Richardson flew to Jerusalem to check a report (which turned out to be unfounded) that a U.N. truce observer had resigned. He then returned to his Beirut base and found he had to write a background report on Mossadegh's successor, Qavam-only to get the report a few hours later that Qavam was out and Mossadegh back...
When Stevenson had finished, chipper Chicago Boss Jack Arvey got up, undertook to answer the unspoken $64 question: Would the governor accept a draft? Said Arvey: "I've never spent one 3? stamp or made a telephone call asking anyone to vote for Stevenson . . . But I'll say as long as I live that if the Democratic Party nominates Governor Stevenson, I know that in the light of his background...
...Last week, chipper and tanned, Old Man Stagg spryly demonstrated a few football plays on the thick, velvety turf of Chicago's Stagg Field. He was there as guest of honor at a celebration of his goth birthday (actual date...