Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high school football season in Texas. From the Pecos to the Panhandle, 740 Texas Interscholastic League teams slug it out with everything but blackjacks. They usually get more newspaper space than college games, often draw bigger crowds. Fans (who include about everybody in Texas) get in there and cheer as if they were defending the Alamo with Davy Crockett...
Both the size and the composition of the crowd that turned out in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Independencia to cheer Citizen Perón's first public campaign speech struck dismay into good Argentine democrats. The Perón followers (estimated at 200,000) were almost as impressive in numbers as the Democratic Unionists who had gathered the week before to shout Perón down. Milling about with the usual Perón nationalists and bullyboys were thousands of well-dressed, middle-class voters. Perón's attempt to split off a sector of Argentina...
Polite, Alsatian-born Dr. Hans A. Bethe, professor of theoretical physics at Cornell, worked three years on the atomic bomb. Last week he brought the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee a relieving note of cheer...
...midst of this, the strikers last week got two lifts. A Leamington farmer donated 80 chickens to make sandwiches for pickets; Windsor's Red Cross, Junior Chamber of Commerce and newspaper representatives banded together for a new contribution: Christmas cheer for strikers' children...
...Christmas comes but once a year. . ." and with it, this year, comes a diversity of pinion as to what in the nature of House entertainment, constitutes Christmas cheer...