Word: chipperly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michigan. It succeeded. More than one specialty shop whipped up jelly-bean ice cream in honor of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration, but Washington Lawyer Weiss, perhaps foreseeing litigation, quickly withdrew his from his menu at Bob's Famous. Said he: "It looked like a potential tooth chipper...
...entered Room 450 of the old Executive Office Building with a jaunty step and a chipper "Good afternoon," flashing that familiar grin at the 150 reporters who had gathered for Ronald Reagan's first press conference since March 6, three weeks before the assassination attempt. "I have recovered," said the President, who described his return to health as a "medical miracle." Certainly there was plenty of the old zip when he urged Congress to get moving on his budget and tax-cut bills (see following story). But when the questions were about foreign policy-as 15 of 25 were...
...fine, chipper. By nightfall the country was beginning to do some oxygenating...
Dressed in space suits, the two men ride up the giant service tower, pause for a last briefing and with a chipper, thumbs-up wave climb into their spacecraft. The ship's three main engines roar to life, gulping supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen out of the huge silo-shaped fuel tank As the engines throttle to 90% of full power the spacecraft and tank bend ever so slightly. When they snap back, two solid-fuel rockets strapped to the silo's sides are ignited. Belching flame and smoke, the entire 18-story-high "stack "-spacecraft fuel...
Reagan prepared to fire Sears just when his campaign manager pulled off his triumph at the Nashua Telegraph debate. Chipper and confident, Sears had no reason to think he was being axed when he and two lieutenants-National Political Director Charles Black and Press Secretary Jim Lake-were summoned to the boss's suite at a Holiday Inn in Manchester, N.H. There they encountered Reagan and Casey; off to one side sat Nancy Reagan, looking distressed. Reagan came right to the point. He handed Sears a press release announcing his resignation. Stifling his surprise, Sears...