Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN A MEMBER of the First Transkei Battalion steps forward today to replace the South African flag with the newly independent nation's ochre, green and white one, the ceremony will differ markedly from Mozambique's independence celebration almost exactly two years ago. In Mozambique, a cheering crowd heard President Samora Machel describe his people's lengthy struggle for liberation from the Portuguese colonists and his party's program for development and participatory democracy. Today in the Transkei, buried in the heart of apartheid South Africa, no one will cheer the new prime minister as he shakes hands with South...
...2000.Third World countries, for example, are expected to double or treble agricultural output. Another assumption is that North America and Japan will double aid to Third World nations and accept more exports from them. Even if such changes prove slow in coming, there is at least some cause for cheer in the suggestion that the globe's natural treasures may not run out as soon as the pessimists have forecast...
...offense was on the sidelines muttering about the frustrating events of the day, the Big Green defense was busy keeping the ship afloat, hoping for some sparks of life. Those sparks were slow to come, though kicking specialist Nick Lowery did provide the Hanover crowd with something to cheer about as the second quarter drew to a close...
...with the significant and, even by standards less strict than Hemingway's, flunks in prose style. Yet she is an indispensable witness. Nobody else could record that even when things were at their best during the writing of The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway confessed: "I can cheer up everybody except me." She reveals his pain together with her own-which was sharpened by the knowledge that she could not help. Even so, Mrs. Hemingway has also written a decisive chapter in the history of women who do time as artists' handmaidens As usual, her husband...
...Yorker Journalist Renata Adler's special purview has often been the odd schizophrenia induced in those Americans who came of age (as she did) in the 1950s-a generation that was too young to cheer the System and too old to blow it up. The seven stories in Speedboat, though cast as fiction, really form an extended reporter's notebook on the same story: the many ways that agreeable, hypereducated people find to go slowly bonkers...