Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, Kennedy felt chipper enough to indulge in a campaign practice that few American politicians abroad seem able to resist: shaking hands with the natives. Twice during his tours Kennedy darted away from his police escort to mingle with startled Parisians, giving them his smiling, low-keyed greeting: "How are you? Good to see you." But there was not much time for that sort of thing: his tightly scheduled day was jammed with both cerebration and ceremony...
Victims not so much of any enemy except wild chaos and disorder, the returning chipper and cheerful airmen were a welcome sample of American mission in a week when the U.S. was humiliated by the defection to Moscow of two trusted security employees (see below). Said Lieut. Kenneth E. Stickevers, his right hand in a splint and his left bandaged: "We do this for a living. We'll go anywhere, any time...
...flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases with chipper little figures going about their daily chores, drinking their beer, sparking, preparing their feasts-all under a bright sky of perpetual blue...