Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ahead of her time!), she wanted a car, she was mad at the goddamn world for treating her like shit, she was tragically powerless to escape from the bastards who were wringing her through this goddamn machine called school, slop jobs, idiots with pom-poms who wanted her to cheer for the goddamn basketball team when she had to help support her sister and forget that her father was gone, long gone by the time they left Ft. Leavenworth (goddamn Kansas) prison army base, forget the guys she'd fallen for who'd slugged her, Patty, who was smart...
Nixon's glowing predictions also constitute a kind of jawboning of the U.S. consumer, urging him to cheer up and spend confidently. The consumer could use some cheer. Seventy-four percent of those questioned in a Gallup poll in early January, for example, said that they expected unemployment to rise this year. The economic news so far has not been the sort needed to produce instant exuberance. Last week the Government reported that consumer prices in December rose at an annual rate of 6%, continuing the average rate that made 1970 the most inflationary year since...
...ritual was staged again and again a decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...
...steady withdrawal of U.S. troops from Southeast Asia has been a source of rising cheer at home. In many non-Communist Asian countries few such cheers can be heard. The satisfaction of seeing Yankee go home is tempered by a pain in the pocketbook...
Great Simplifiers. Moynihan gave his audience several exhortations and some rather thick flattery: "The first is to be of good cheer and good conscience. Depressing, even frightening things are being said about the Administration. They are not true. This has been a company of honorable and able men, led by a President of singular courage and compassion in the face of a sometimes awful knowledge of the problems and the probabilities that confront...