Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original Americans as she greeted Indian children in New Town, N.Dak. The President made friends as he hailed the pioneer spirit of the Mormons at a meeting with church elders in Salt Lake City. Honored and flattered by his visit, citizens in Fargo, N.Dak., turned out to cheer enthusiastically as the President said, "It's great to be in rural America." He was also greeted by a front-page open letter in the Fargo Forum. In a survey of local farmers, businessmen and young people, the Forum's reporter found the natives restless. Among their comments: "This economy...
...Arkansas's lonely dissenter, he came home to something of a hero's welcome. Several hundred Arkansans, unwilling to wait for his arrival at Little Rock, rode by wagon and horseback some 45 miles to De Valls Bluff to cheer his return. Later, the bishop received an unexpected dividend from the very declaration he had opposed.* Bismarck's Kulturkampf drove many persecuted German Catholics to the New World. Fitzgerald, a hearty, outgoing man who kept his home open to any traveler, managed to attract some of the refugees. There had been only 1,600 Catholics...
Champagne glasses clinked and beaming smiles were exchanged behind the doors of clubman's row on London's St. James's Street. Inside such traditional Tory haunts as White's and the Carlton, the good cheer was positively palpable. Board rooms in the City took on renewed bustle, and shopkeepers from Mayfair to Manchester exuded an air of optimism. Britain in general seemed overlaid with a vaguely comfortable feeling that the old masters were back in power...
...people, tens of thousands of people freaks, clean-cuts, old women-lolling in the shade soaking up the rhetorie. A swathe of Federal Employees on strike cuts through the crowd and you clench your fist and cheer. Everyone cheers, Again, you think "maybe...
...wander, tired of the talk, across the green before the Monument to the reflecting pools. People have gathered and you can hear "Fuck Richard Nixon" echoing back toward the White House. Over the spray of the fountain you see teeshirts and blue jeans sailing into the air. The Yippie cheer explodes and everyone terrorizes the pool, ripping the water in sheets and throwing it to the sky. You push through the crowd, kick off your shoes and join them...