Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charlotte Curtis piece were not enough, the Times then published an editorial that accused the "politico-cultural jet set" of indulging in what it called "elegant slumming" and "guilt-relieving fun spiked with social consciousness." Said the Times: "Responsible black leadership is not likely to cheer as the Beautiful People create a new myth that Black Panther is Beautiful...
With a certain note of cheer that the Administration's deflationary policy is finally working, Commerce Department officials reported last week that the economy's growth ground to a halt in the last three months of 1969. The gross national product increased by $10.3 billion in that period but, after price increases were taken into account, there was no "real" growth. Other signs of slowdown were plentiful. In December, industrial production declined for the fifth straight month, and new housing starts dropped slightly to an annual rate of 1,245,000, which was the year's lowest...
...welcome the decision of the court. Only in districts with a high ratio of whites to blacks did desegregation bring a measure of integration. In Columbia, where whites outnumber blacks 3 to 1, high school students ignored eight pickets outside and sat down together in an assembly hall to cheer a black student leader who urged them to make their town "a lighthouse in Marion County." In Yazoo City, where the student population is almost evenly divided between whites and blacks, a majority of the whites showed up for registration and classes (see box opposite...
...were so enthusiastic about Charles Lindbergh's flight to Paris in 1927 that they yearned for careers in aviation. The son of a Syrian father and an English mother, tall, dark "Jeeb" Halaby remembers that as a twelve-year-old in his native Dallas he turned out to cheer when Lindy came to town. Five years later, Halaby took his first plane ride in an OX 5 Travel Air and enrolled in a flying course. He borrowed $6,500 from his parents?who ran an art shop on the top floor of the Neiman-Marcus department store?...
...Conductor Fausto Cleva did Pag), the night promised to be one to remember. Bernstein and Zeffirelli, after all, in 1964 had helped turn the Met's Falstaff into the recent decade's most breathtaking operatic experience. Alas, this time out the results were more thought provoking than cheer inspiring...