Word: cheerfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What College Bowl suffers from is a sophomoric strain on the basketball analogy. A referee's shrill whistle signals half time and the commercial. A student audience is encouraged to cheer each correct answer. After Northwestern was defeated by Georgetown a few weeks back, Northwestern students hanged in effigy the quiz team's coach, Dean of Students James Currie McLeod. Mused McLeod: "Who knows-I may wind up like Terry Brennan...
...Bronx Cheer. Another Congressman, New York Democrat Charles A. Buckley (elected in 1934), turned up on the lengthening list of lawmakers who spend federal staff allowances with cheery abandon. Reported Scripps-Howard Newshawk Vance Trimble (TIME, March 16): The Bronx's Buckley pays $38,497 a year to eight political followers in New York City who work part time on Buckley business, mostly in their own homes. Buckley's Washington office is staffed by only two people, both paid not out of his staff allowance, but from funds of the House Public Works Committee, of which...
...that Indonesian Reds had to cheer about last week was the state visit of aging Ho Chi Minh, President of Communist North Viet Nam. Wisp-bearded Ho kissed all the pretty girls in sight, thus scandalizing pious Moslems, who complained that his bussing of young women was "an overt violation of Moslem law." Sukarno, who always likes to say what visitors like to hear, called Ho "one of the greatest men in Asia." General Abdul Haris Nasution and his army kept order and their own counsel...
...Understanding. The first angry. disappointed reaction in Britain was to acknowledge the failure of Macmillan's mission, but to cheer him for doing his best against a ruffian. British officials suddenly became less ready to lecture others on inflexibility or to regard another Berlin airlift as unduly provocative...
...Macmillan had received began to reach Moscow. At that the barometer began to rise a little. At week's end when Macmillan flew into Leningrad, a crowd tens of thousands strong lined the roads to greet him. Also on hand, unexpectedly, were Mikoyan and Gromyko, both radiating good cheer...