Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cheers & Merriment. As the President arrived at New York's Idlewild Airport and sped into Manhattan in his bubble-topped Lincoln, New Yorkers-125,000 of them-lined the streets to cheer him and to wave placards (WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU, IKE) as if he were a fighter climbing into the ring. Even the customary show of political partisanship was gone; Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, who had never seen fit to greet the President on past visits, rode into town with...
...venerable magistrate, his robes of office wrapped about him, cannot suppress his mirth. A housewife tilts back her head and breaks into a toothy grin. A girl smiles with obvious pleasure, perhaps because of a new and unusual spit curl. A boy swings wide his arms in innocent merriment, while another brings a tiny hand to his lips as if trying to hush his own irrepressible giggles...
...West: "If it fails to resist it, [Europe] must look to its own weaknesses and its own form of spiritual flabbiness. Now you are catching up with us! All Europe is drunk with the same poison!" Up stepped Gamesman Potter to tweak Uncle Sam's nose amidst general merriment. He quoted from a manual for U.S. cemetery-plot salesmen: "It's better to have a plot and no need for it than to need it and not have one." He sneered at a claim of California winegrowers that they have never had a poor vintage year. He declaimed...
...Russian military might and space achievement, now uttering dulcet promises of peace and friendship; of Khrushchev threatening to pick up his marbles and go home when denied a chance to go to Southern California's Disneyland; of Khrushchev falling in love with San Francisco; and of Khrushchev roaring in merriment while an Iowa farmer shied ensilage at the newsmen who had crowded too close...