Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reminiscing in Chicago last week about his 1948 election victory (which is one of the things he likes to do most), Harry Truman dropped a gleeful footnotelet to the campaign...
...nothing to my father and mother. I just can't. I just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when he reported : "When I'm sick my daddy has to walk around at night for me and he says 'Goddam...
This week, after a fortnight in the Florida sun, he was back in Washington to try out his new good-neighbor policy at firsthand. Any break between the President and Congress, he told the U.S. Conference of Mayors, was mainly in the imagination of "troublemakers" who "start a gleeful chorus about how the Congress has thrown the whole Democratic program overboard." If anyone wanted to junk the Fair Deal, it was the pressure groups, and the worst of them all, he said, was the real-estate lobby, "the real enemy of the American home...
...fancy of the majority of witnesses because the ball was on the move constantly. The technically-minded, however left the Stadium picking the defensive setups employed and pointing outthat the tackling was atvaclaus. But that makes little difference. For every one of these critical fans there were dozens of gleeful patrons saying, 'What a game. Harvard finally has a team worth watching...
...titled to free care; they were joined now by 14,500,000 more, a total of 36,700,000 out of a population of 41,460,000 in Eng land and Wales. (Separate but similar schemes started at the same time in Scot land and Northern Ireland.) Said one gleeful patient: "I've been paying my doctor ten shillings sixpence ($2.10) per visit twice a week. Now the fellow has to attend me for 15 bob a year...