Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bright spot in the inflation picture is that wholesale farm prices in April fell an average of 3%, promising some long-overdue relief to food shoppers. But even that bit of cheer has worrisome implications. Declining agricultural prices mean less revenue from farm exports at a time when more money is going out of the U.S. to pay for imported petroleum. As a result, the nation's trade balance, which already has slipped back into deficit after showing a surplus for 1973, could go even deeper into...
...alternative to love? In these stories, written not long before The Golden Notebook (1962)-Mrs. Lessing's broadest consideration of all the wars between the sexes-her answer appears to be a rueful no. Those who want to live, apparently, are more or less doomed to love. But cheer up -a little. Love, like the blight in A Mild Attack of Locusts, can be endured. The sturdy wind up saying "It could have been worse." Mrs. Lessing has always been a slow, deliberate writer who seems unable to spare herself or her reader the slightest wince of pain...
...people in Angola still felt oppressed, at least now they would know there were up-to-date figures on them--and, besides, Bok had Harvard send Stephen B. Farber '63, his special assistant, to bring back a report and cheer Angola up even more. As if that still wasn't enough, Bok announced that he was personally offended by American policies which indirectly strengthened Portugal's grip on its colonies, and appealed to PALC to "join with me in finding a co-operative way of calling attention to the wrongs of Angola...
...amateur Carusos croon over the loudspeakers. There are grape-stomping contests and a step-by-step demonstration of how to make sfinge, an Italian confection. At the evening's end a spray of fireworks flares over the neighborhood as proud residents and guests clap and cheer, aware that they have seen the past and that on the Hill at least, it still works...
Soon, we might be seeing the Ronald McDonald Intercollegiate Invitiational Tennis Tournament, with a set of Golden Arches served to the winner. The fans could cheer from the sideline "You deserve a service break today" and the event could be held in McFebruary (a month of fundays...