Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burns started strongly and it appeared that Cartmell would be unable to catch him. But halfway through the leg. Cartmell began to move up on the fatigued Burns. Cartmell passed him with 60 yards left and won as a tremendous cheer went up from Yale's fans and team. The Elis' time was 3:17.6-as compared to Harvard's 3:18.4-a freshman record by 0.3 seconds...
LIKE SO MANY of his other actions during his first sixteen years at Harvard. President Pusey's resignation announcement will do little to cheer those who are seriously angry at this school. The soft spots in the gesture are obvious, waiting for the cynical poke: June of 1974 is, after all, still a long time off, and it is hard to know what Pusey will do between now and then. From a stylistic point of view. Pusey managed to conduct the whole affair without leaving the slightest trace of a mental truce between the forces who have opposed...
...radicals accused the SMC of "selling out the people to appease the liberal politicians." "RYM leader C. Clark Kissinger criticized mass marches which, he said, "cheer Mayor Lindsay while his pigs run all over Harlem, [and] boo David Hilliard [a Black Panther leader] for saying it like...
...seems dubious whether a Republican President will be able to persuade a disputatious Democratic Congress to adopt his finely tuned fiscal package. Much of the surplus, for instance, is predicated on deferring a cost-of-living pay raise now scheduled for federal employees. Though economic conservatives will cheer what Nixon calls "prudent policy," critics can be expected to fault his attack on social and environmental problems as timid. Nixon cites "economic credibility" as a goal of his Administration, but the tiny size of his estimated budget surplus is likely to raise skeptical eyebrows both in and out of Congress. Some...
...most favored continent. Then there is a recent image, often seen through air-conditioned automobile windows. Grinning shyly, the fat squaw hawks her woven baskets along the reservation highway, the dusty landscape littered with rusting cars, crumbling wickiups and bony cattle. In the bleak villages, the only signs of cheer are romping, round-faced children and the invariably dirty, crowded bar, noisy with the shouts and laughter of drunkenness...