Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tens of thousands of Germans and Austrians chanted, "Rosi, Ro-si," every time their daredevil streaked by, which she did fast enough and often enough to win three medals: two gold and one silver. Hamill Hall was the Olympic Stadium, where seemingly every American in Austria turned out to cheer as their figure-skating favorite swept over the ice in flawless form to win a gold medal. By the time the two women were done, they had stolen the show at the 12th Winter Games...
...more crowds gathered, the shouting competitors silenced. It was 14-13--Sunstein's advantage. The Californian served, they volleyed. Then a final Crimson cheer, and Sunstein thrust up his arms in victory. "I wanted to keep it exciting," Sunstein said after the match...
...balancing act. Or, in another Custer image, he makes his stand against the anti-American and anti-Western onslaughts he perceives everywhere?but he is not about to suggest that it is a last stand. Moynihan has enraged Third World delegates, discomfited his Western European colleagues, and brought cheer to the hearts of Americans, who have taken to his brand of dukes-up diplomacy and feel that someone is at last talking back at the world...
...both incarnations, he occasionally indulges a well-cultivated taste for Dubonnet, Scotch, brandy, port or stout. Even Moynihan's critics concede that his unfailing Irish wit and cheer make him a good man to take on a pub crawl...
...They cheer le cowboy in le western, eat le snack (pronounced znag) or le sandwich in le living room or le drugstore, and sip un cocktail or un Scotch sur les rocks at le party au le weekend. Now, in a new effort to knockouter "the most obvious instances of language degradation and to protect the citizen from possible harm," a new law, Number 75-1349, forbids the use of foreign words in advertising, business contracts, TV and radio programs and the like...