Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of national difference, what good scholars have in common is much more important than the differences in their cultural background." He feels himself very much of an American, and he says, though he is overly modest about his command of the language, that he finds English a happier means to express his thoughts than his native German. "English forces one into exact and disciplined thought and German is very prone to cloudy thinking...
...There is mildew on the rocks, and the Judas trees are in bloom. The face of the country has been transformed. And the people are a little happier ... A neighbor, a very old man, said last fall: 'The hand of man is against me and the face of God is turned away. Pardner, whichever way you look, it's tough.' Last week he said: 'Son, just listen to the mockingbirds...
...Happier Today. Only once in his tour did Ike find himself facing an unenthusiastic crowd. In the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, the Columbine landed at the airport adjoining the Lockheed plant where the Presidential Super Constellation had been built. Ike found the crowd of 25,000 sullenly impassive to his greeting. Lockheed's management had stopped work for the President's visit; the International Association of Machinists, representing the workers, had objected to the order as "pure politics," called it "a flat donation in excess of $25,000" to the Republican Party. But elsewhere, the waving, shouting...
Pausing in Denver for his brief talk to 5.000 ranged at the airport to meet him, the President reported "one thing on this trip has impressed me mightily. I am convinced America ... is happier today than it was four years ago." So too last week was Candidate Dwight Eisenhower...
...quality to the welcome; everywhere the setting was warm, relaxed, assured, befitting the national mood that the President, more than anyone else, has created. "I am often asked," he said in Pittsburgh, "what is the difference between this country now and in 1952? . . . It is this . . . We are just happier. We are just a happier nation...