Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ascended the steps to join the largest crowd in the stadium's history. I had some how finagled my way to seats on the 50, sandwiched between members of the board of overseers of B.C. Priests sprinkled among the crowd were obviously burdened with the choice: Should they cheer for BC and pray for Notre Dame or cheer for ND and pray for the Eagles? There was also a clear David-and Goliath parallel here with the bulk of the crowd in the kid's corner. The Goodyear blimp looked on uncommittedly...
...another was at the Law School and loving it. Their proctees liked the maternal warmth and easygoing support. One freshwoman from Canaday said, "My proctor had just graduated from Radcliffe two years before, and she was very cynical about Harvard men. When we felt rejected and lonely she'd cheer us up with her own combination of feminism and experience. She did for us what most of the male proctors have been doing for male freshmen for a long time--she bathed our wounded social egos with pro-female pep talks. Her insights were all the more valuable because...
...technologically dazzling goods and mountainous surpluses of food. The campuses were so complacently quiet that people spoke of the Silent Generation. That age turned sour around the end of 1963, with the assassination of John Kennedy and the deepening involvement in Viet Nam. After that, it became harder to cheer a society divided by riots, split by generations, alarmed by drugs and afraid to walk city streets at night...
...Joint Economic Committee, he has become a chief spokesman for the Democratic program of housing subsidies, national health insurance, and long-term energy and economic planning. Though much of this legislation has been rebuffed or vetoed by Ford, Humphrey has led the disorganized opposition with his customary good cheer and sportsmanship, disarming his critics and winning allies. George McGovern, for one, has strongly hinted that he would support a Humphrey candidacy...
...ever been shown live, as shoppers gathered before TV sets or display in stores and shopwindows all over the city. The crowds were quietly attentive during the countdown, and a lift-off applauded politely and called out "Molodyets, molodyets"-a Russian expression that is roughly equivalent to the American cheer "That's the way, baby...