Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOUTHIE cheerleaders are here, too, but these ones aren't like any of those suburban babes who come in town in their own cars to cheer for Melrose and North Quincy on Friday nights. The Southie babes are dressed in these goddamn athletic jackets, dark red and blue with SOUTH BOSTON on the back, and names like Donna...
...Having watched some members of the football team try unsuccessfully for three years to get girl cheerleaders, the basketball squad decided to ask some girls at the 'Cliffe if they wanted to cheer," said Silas F. Davis, manager of the basketball team. "And they said they'd do it," he added...
...thought it would be fun to cheer," said Vivian Lewis '73 one of the cheerleaders, "and so we decided to do it. The first time we tried-sort of unofficially-at Dartmouth, the man at the gate wanted to know how we decided we were cheerleaders. Now we're official...
Readers have written to cheer Environment's report on the vast network of conservation commissions in Massachusetts and to protest the possibility of a jetport near Florida's Everglades; they mourned, with TIME, the passing of the golden-cheeked warbler and shuddered at the arrival of the African snail. Other stories on the dangers of nuclear power, overdevelopment in Vermont, noise pollution in big cities, how to abolish billboards, antipollution suits in Illinois drew wide comment. Many readers simply expressed an opinion, as did former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, that "TIME'S concern over the environment...
Even the most partisan Democrats could only cheer the President's desire for the nation to "make our peace with nature." Environmental ills certainly constitute one of the greatest dangers facing the U.S. (see cover story, page 56). Attacking those ailments has a special appeal for Americans; in large part they are technical and mechanistic problems that involve processes, flows, things, and the American genius seems to run that way. Yet there is perhaps also the subtle danger that U.S. opinion may succumb to an element of escapism in a massive concentration on environmental problems. It could lead...