Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...November 1959 when Hawaii's Kilauea Iki volcano suddenly erupted and formed a lava pool 300 ft. deep in its own crater, no one in the neighborhood saw any particular reason to cheer. But at the University of California's Livermore Radiation Laboratory, the news brought joy to the hearts of a pair of bright young scientists. To Geologist Donald Rawson, 26, and Physicist Gary Higgins, 33, the new lava pool sounded like an ideal testing site for a key phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare: a plan for harnessing a steam-powered turbogenerator...
...girl was one of a mass of Cubans who crowded into Havana's Plaza Civica last summer to cheer Fidel Castro and shout hatred of the U.S. Hers was one of many memorable faces-faces of hate, sorrow, bewilderment-that dominated a new, hour-long documentary seen on ABC-TV last week. Billed as a "film editorial," it was designed to give viewers a look at the dangerous anti-American passions mounting throughout Latin America in the vacuum of U.S. policy...
...Eagles spread the good cheer around, with five men breaking into double figures. Jim Hooley led the onslaught with 18 points, followed by Frank Quinn with 17, Bill Donovan and Jerry Power with 16, and Gerry Ward with...
Then Chevalier drew the loudest cheer of the night for a driving layup during which he passed the ball behind his back twice. Later, he huried an overhand pass through a cluster of people under the basket to set up an easy two points for Ward...
...foul shot by Gary Borchard made the score 15 to 11 after eight minutes, but the varsity never got so close again. When Denny Lynch sank two free throws with less than two minutes left for the Crimson's 49th and 50th points, the spectators gave him a big cheer...