Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perverse way, some of the academically oppressed are at their most cheerful when they are describing their lot. But if they revel in their despondency, if they take cheer from the perpetual exam-period pallor that hovers over the Yale campus, many students worry also that Yale is going to leave them less than whole...
Despite the subpar performance of the varsity soccer team this year, soccer fans still have cause for cheer. The virtually unknown freshman soccer team extended its season's record to 8-1 yesterday afternoon, dumping Brown's heavily favored J.V. team...
Thump. Thump. Kubacki--thump--to Winn--thump--for a completed--thump--pass and first down. The play is over, the players skip and slap toward the huddle, the fans cheer...
...entirely right. Three Days seems to be saying that the C.I.A. is like a big anonymous corporation in which pawns get knocked off in the senseless palace intrigues of the bigshots. Redford's one major policy statement at the end of the film is designed to make us cheer the idea of the small man fighting the bureaucracy, only instead of the harried housewife trying to get the phone company to correct a billing error, this is blood 'n' guts stuff. It doesn't work. The C.I.A. is doing its job in this film, and ther heroes--Redford...
Henry Ford II came with 246 others for Henry Kissinger's lunch in his eighth-floor salon. The auto prince smiled and burbled with cheer as he was plucked from his assigned place at one of the lesser tables and put at the head table to fill a vacancy. His handsome wife moved from friend to friend with smiles and short, warm busses...