Word: chipperly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After announcing that he would not seek a third term as President, South Korea's aging Strongman Syngman Rhee was at last persuaded to run "only by the clamor of the Korean people." He was confident of his popularity and of the efficiency of his machine. Chipper and jaunty at 81, he spent the final days of the campaign attending the movies and pointing out dirty spots on the new floors of his pet project, Seoul's plush $5,000,000 Bando Hotel...
...Small, chipper Bishop Gerald Francis Burrill, 49, was unimpressed by angry Dr. Higgins, doubted that the subject would even come up at this week's convention. "It's just a tempest in a teapot," he shrugged. "Or you might say it's an old chestnut that's been rolling around for years. Our church is a church of tension. We try to preserve within it the doctrines and discipline of the Catholic Church, but with a difference. This argument has been fought up and down the river ever since the Reformation . . . The majority of our people...
Still on the mend after a heart attack that laid him low in Cairo last February, the Ago Khan, 77, looking surprisingly chipper, enjoyed a sunny outing at Paris' Longchamp race track with his handsome French-born wife, the Begum...
...office-hungry Labor Party had only 20 days in which to wrest the government away from Sir Anthony Eden's Conservatives. The challengers went into the fight as underdogs, but only slightly under (by 1%, according to the week's News Chronicle Gallup poll). Their leaders wore chipper fronts, but in private were far from optimistic. "I shall enjoy every minute of it," promised old (72) but spry Party Leader Clement Attlee, as he plunged into his tenth election campaign...
...threaded his way with quick gait through the grey stone château resort high in the pines of the Black Forest, past his fellow guests and their nurses. On vacation, he looked as chipper as ever, walking in the morning amid the trees, kneeling for as long as an hour in the chapel, while Paul, his son, said Mass. He joshed the hotel servants; when a waiter with a Rhineland accent brought the corkscrew to open some 40-year-old brandy, he insisted that the man drink with...