Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three men left the building and walked back to the car, the waiting crowd erupted in gleeful yells. "Goddam dirty nigger bastard," a teen-age boy shouted, "get out of here and stay...
...from Boston or New Haven, it too often carries to Manhattan an unpleasant odor that bodes ill for the play heading for Broadway. Moreover, in the super-envious world of the theater, too many good old friends from around 44th Street like to flock to the nearby roadshows in gleeful hopes of bottling the last gasp...
...Worker. Last week alone, Party Boss Gus Hall made two speeches at the universities of Chicago and Wisconsin. National Secretary Ben Davis earlier drew 6,000 students for a speech at the University of Minnesota. The Communist lecture bureau in New York City is beside itself in gleeful culling of invitations from some 100 campuses this year, against two dozen or so last year...
...Hampshire's history. Bridges instituted unemployment compensation and insurance, old age benefits, even while balancing the budget. By 1936, Governor Bridges was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination. But Alf Landon won the top spot on the ticket, and even before the Republican Convention, gleeful Democrats had come up with a deadly campaign slogan: "Landon-Bridges Falling Down." The convention turned to Chicago Publisher Frank Knox as its vice-presidential nominee, and Bridges decided to run for the Senate. He won easily, despite the Roosevelt landslide...
During the postwar years, the consumer's gleeful use of credit for cars, refrigerators and other such big items helped to fuel a prolonged U.S. boom. Now the things that people go into debt for are changing. Housing and car buying loom less important as credit areas; installment buying is expanding much more in such areas as college education and fly-now-pay-later travel plans. Meantime, the Government, whose debt the consumer shares through taxes, is stepping up spending for defense and space...