Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind had blown through the night and swept away the clouds. The morning which the eleven did not see dawned clear and brilliant over Nürnberg, but it held neither cheer nor reassurance for the victors. They had permitted new doubts of Nürnberg's justice to arise even out of this last, relatively simple business of hanging ten men by the neck. And they had given Germany a sense of victory when they permitted Hermann Goring to die not as they willed but as he willed...
...good French writer has tried to translate that least Gallic of poems, the first to make a first-rate job of it was Hamlet-like André Gide. Last week Gide's translation was superbly presented on the stage. Long before all the brilliance of Paris rose to cheer the play's swift, incisive three and a half hours, it was clear that tradition was dead & buried. From now on Hamlet was going to be happy in Paris...
...band, which the New Yorker called "the best in the country," the rally made the usual parade through Cambridge, ending at the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building. There they heard Freshman Coach Henry Lamar, Torby MacDonald, and members of the team urge them "to come out and cheer hard tomorrow." They also heard the band give encore after encore to the accompaniment of long and thunderous applause...
...Hoping to substitute Harvard football songs for the hit parade on game evenings, and to increase the volume and coordination of the cheering sections, the Council appropriated money for cheer and song sheets which it expects to have for distribution before the Holy Cross game...
...down who they were and what it remained for them to do. In the hope that necessity would mother invention, I repeated with great emphasis, 'So, it only remains for those who-.' But it was no use, and I sat down. The House gave me a sympathetic cheer...