Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the back-country jibaros (farmers) had planned for El Dia Dos (Jan. 2)-the great day when Puerto Rico would inaugurate its first elected governor. When the day came this week, 150,000 islanders turned out to cheer for Governor Luis Mufioz Marin in the biggest celebration of San Juan's 455-year history...
...holiday cheer failed to drown out one small croak. Employment (exclusive of farm labor) in November, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was off 170,000 from October. It was the first time in seven years that such employment had dropped during the usually booming pre-Christmas season. (At 45,700,000, U.S. non-farm employment was still 800,000 above a year...
From the blue and surf-ringed isolation of French-owned Tahiti, Author James Norman Hall (Pitcairn's Island, Mutiny on the Bounty) decided that the world's dirty, teeming and fear-ridden old nests of civilization needed a word of cheer. After noting, with obvious satisfaction, that French Oceania was free of the ships, planes and men which cluttered it up during World War II, he sent TIME two items of news about its people...
...York Star's reviewer tried to do. He jeered: "Cheer up, all you young women with $80 million. Happiness can be yours, anyway...
...while Cleo O'Donnell addressed his remarks to a small but extroverted group of Elis who were singing bravely but unnoticed at the edge of the crowd. "I think they should come out of the cover of darkness," O'Donnell said, "because they certainly won't have much to cheer about tomorrow...