Word: hurrahs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hurrah for Uncle Autumn. Western Germany last week was full of hope. The summer had been cold and rainy, but it had been followed by a glorious golden autumn. On the freshly harvested fields, which had yielded a bumper crop, children launched their kites into the brisk wind; it seemed, sometimes, as though the gaily colored Drachen rode high enough to touch the C-54s which droned overhead in their ceaseless shuttle to Berlin...
...summed up much of Western Germany's mood: "Speckled autumn moves through the country with long steps and mighty hand. It bends the slender trees and it rustles the stout ones. Then the ripe apples and pears and apricots come tumbling down. The boys and girls shout: 'Hurrah, Uncle Autumn is here...
...George Marshall drove through Athens, the people (who had not been told of his visit until just before his arrival) thronged the streets and cried: "Zeto [hurrah] Marshall!" He drove to the headquarters of the U.S. military mission -nicknamed the "Temple of Knowledge" by sour Greek officers-for talks with the U.S. staff. To correspondents, U.S. officers explained that no decisive action was possible this year because winter had already come to the mountains in northern Greece. All that could be done was to contain the guerrillas, and prepare a spring offensive. Remarked Ambassador Grady: "The situation ... is not completely...
Easing in to the dock at Yorktown, Va., Harry Truman had one small reminder of the political storms to come. The Williamsburg was overtaken by a small runabout carrying a dozen teen-age boys and girls alternately shouting "Hurrah for Thurmond!" and singing Dixie...
Chep's first political adventure was at a rally presided over by his father. Chep, then eight years old, was "poppa's" great admirer. He sat in the front row screaming, "Hurrah for poppa," so steadily that the rally had to cease until someone led Chep away to a barrel of lemonade. Chep has kept that quality of persistence...