Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sampling of letters included encomiums from a woman in New Jersey ("I think you are absolutely great. You call a spade a spade") and a Tennessee man who asked for a picture of her so that "when things go wrong, I will look at it and it will cheer me up." A man in Ohio urged her to start a national women's organization "for the American cause." She is flattered by invitations to speak. "After I blasted the universities,* I got a little hesitant to open my mail from universities. Then one day comes a letterhead from Yale...
When the head was cut off the crowd erupted with a cheer and then proceeded to cut off bits and pieces of the creature to take home...
...enough to predict otherwise. And being in Ithaca isn't going to be the disadvantage one might expect since Jim Buckley, Senator Jim Buckley, who is reportedly a big fan of Bob Blackman because of his ability to win by such a large margin, will be in Ithaca to cheer the Indians and pick up pointers from Blackman. While Dartmouth is fussing about its national statistics, Ed Marinaro will be doing the same. He may have real trouble with the Dartmouth defense and thus drop in the listing of rushing leaders. Anyway, if Cornell needed two touchdowns in the final...
...such citizens, this was a disheartening campaign. Sometimes it seemed as though the Republicans had nothing to cheer but fear itself (to twist a long-forgotten F.D.R. slogan), and the Democrats were leaderless and without easily focused issues. But if it was not the best of campaigns, it was probably not the worst, either. For all the obfuscations and invective, despite widely reported apathy, the voters were conscious of having the last word. On the morning after, the U.S. could only hope that soon the smears would fade, the hot words cool, the politics of accommodation resume. Besides...
...employer also provides a plenitude of sports and recreational facilities-swimming pools, meeting halls, tennis courts, golf courses, baseball diamonds and rugby fields. Hundreds come out to cheer the Toyota teams in competition with those of other companies. Classes are offered in flower arranging, sumo wrestling, water skiing, skating, weight lifting, squash and judo. A worker or his wife can learn to play a guitar and join a company band. For vacationing employees, Toyota maintains a string of mountain and seaside resorts, which charge about $1.40 a day, including food. These benefits are motivated less by union pressure than...