Word: cheerfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joked and chatted with some 150 friends who turned out to cheer at the station. Then the "Truman Victory Special" chuffed away through the President's native Missouri on its last triumphant ride. Small towns flashed by in a blur of smiling faces and waving handkerchiefs; farmers saluted from the fields...
Glowing with hangdog good cheer, like a saloon bouncer turned babysitter, the U.S. Army bravely launched itself, last week, into a kind of ordeal by politeness. The first men of the new peacetime draft began reporting for induction, and the ground forces, by fiat from the Highest Brass, were duty bound to welcome them with smiles...
...Communist Budapest, where the shadow of the Kremlin grows longer and blacker every day, they were telling an old story* to cheer themselves up. Two workers, Erno and Lajos (Magyar for Pat & Mike), were discussing whether life under the people's republic was better than the old days. "Obviously it is," said Erno. "Why?" asked Lajos. "Well," said Erno, "in the old days you lived in a cold, dirty flat, ate a few crusts of bread for breakfast, and then shivered on the street waiting for a tram. After a long, hard day you returned to your flat...
...Btfsplk rhymes with a Bronx cheer, more or less...
...Cheer Candidates...