Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regard to the use of weed killer on cranberries, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Flemming indicated that it caused cancer in rats. It occurred to me that the cranberry growers would have been happier if Mr. Flemming had simply made clear that cranberries should not be fed to rats...
...transfer his allegiance from the Milwaukee Braves to the Chicago Cubs. Met by a crowd of newsmen and clerics at a Chicago airport last week, as he returned from Washington, Meyer chomped his chewing gum vigorously. "Of course, I am happy for myself," he said, "but I am even happier for the people of Chicago. We must be even more dedicated now." Archbishop Meyer is expected to be the only one of the new cardinals who will not be assigned to the Curia in Rome. The second American to get a red hat was also born and bred in Milwaukee...
...next few weeks, Gene was happier than he had been in two years. Several of his friends visited him and related news of the outside world. ("Professor Levin read us all of Love's Labour's Lost today.") A Yalie, who had somehow heard of Gene's plan sent him a Care package with a letter of encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse...
...politicians sip coffee while carrying out the long-distance orders of others. But last week the slouching sentries were snapping as never before. Egypt's Nasser had sent up his own commander in chief, Abdel Hakim Amer, on a special mission from Cairo-to make a restless partner happier with its lot. No longer was there any pretense that Syrians were running their own show...
Even the vexed and vexing period of adolescence is no exception. "Although the adolescent may rebel," Dr. Kenward said, "he feels much happier and more secure if someone helps to restrain his behavior. It can be comparatively painless if he has grown up with basic trust and a respect for wise authority...