Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the good old times. Before him, in the grand ballroom of Pittsburgh's Hilton Hotel, nearly 2,000 delegates to the annual Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention exuberantly chanted: "We want Humphrey! We want Humphrey!" Four times during his speech he brought the crowd to its feet to cheer and applaud. The din even briefly drowned out his spirited attack on both the Ford Administration and on Democratic presidential candidates who have tried to make Washington an election issue. Said he: "The issue is not Washington, not Big Government, but the people in the Government. When...
...Cheer up," the bearded man said. "Everyone makes mistakes...
What is it about this rather innocent contraption that can lead crowds to cheer its defeat or induce lightweight oarsman Bill Chapman to respond to its mere mention with a vehement "I hate fuckin' ergs...
...majority in the House of Commons is only one seat. Laborites, moreover, had been quarreling hotly among themselves over a belt-tightening White Paper issued by the government last month, calling for billions of dollars of cuts in public spending (TIME, March 1). That was hardly a prospect to cheer a depressed industrial area like Coventry...
...leaves, with a few companions. The kids are still waiting on the sidewalk across from the Pudding. It's 1 a.m. and a policeman is telling them to move on, go home, but they scatter, regroup and wait huddled in the circle of the streetlight. When Blake appears they cheer and crowd around him. "I touched him! Sign mine too!" They drift off chattering excitedly down the street, elated by having stuck it out, having...