Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending no more than 20 minutes with any prospect. In training sessions they also spend time shouting, clapping and singing ("Goodbye to no and never,/ Goodbye to doubt and fear. It's a good thing to be a bookman/ And to be of good cheer"). When answering the phone...
Although always an obedient aide, Haig is more accessible and has more good cheer than his predecessor, the dour H.R. Haldeman. Says one Nixon aide: "Haldeman issued orders. You work with Haig as an equal." A former assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in the Johnson Administration and to Henry Kissinger in the Nixon Administration, Haig leapfrogged from colonel to four-star Army Vice Chief of Staff in three years. He had been expected to head the reconstruction of the post-Viet Nam Army...
While we are rummaging in the wreckage for heroes, it may be time to step back and give a cheer for the amorphous and maligned bureaucracy-the same old bureaucracy that has been alternately humiliated, squelched, ignored and attacked by all modern Presidents...
...last week moved to shore up the sagging voluntary price controls of Phase III. But he stopped far short of reimposing the tough controls of Phase II-let alone ordering the temporary wage-price freeze that more and more of his economic critics are demanding. His actions brought some cheer to Wall Street, where stock prices recovered somewhat from what had become a headlong rout, but elsewhere left as much doubt as ever that the rise in living costs can be checked...
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY is a cache of fleeting pleasures collected by Claude Lelouch, who always seems to make films (A Man and a Woman) with the same airy cheer, as if he were mailing out greeting cards. The plot is a congenial sort of caper about a gang of aging delinquents (Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione) who hire themselves out for all kinds of elaborate political thuggery. Since ideology cannot be stashed in a numbered Swiss account, it plays no part in their addled schemes, which include kidnaping a Swiss diplomat and hijacking...