Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clockwise from above: A spectator takes a closer look. Regatta-goers pack Lars Anderson Bridge. Crew shells are stacked in preparation for the long trip home. Cambridge resident Julie Scholl, 9, talks to mounted police officer Ron Bernard and his horse Cheyenne. Spectators watch and cheer on a favorite boat. The Harvard men's varsity lightweight eights stroke toward the finish...
...Hanyang University gymnasium waving a Japanese flag. That time he had been surrounded by four mild-mannered Japanese matrons who were waving their own flags of the Rising Sun and calling out "Good luck! Good luck!" to the Japanese volleyball team. As soon as the unprepossessing quintet finished their cheer, a thunderous chant arose from two separate sections of the stadium: "U.S.A. ! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" The matrons looked perturbed. "It's a little frightening, isn't it?" said one. Undeterred, they bravely waved their flags again: "Nippon! Nippon! Nippon!" Once more there came a tumultuous roar of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A...
...called Arlene Limas. When Arlene mounted the stand and waited for the first playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, however, there was only silence. Then more silence. At last, as the uneasy quiet dragged on, a few of the friends who had come all the way from Illinois to cheer Arlene on, just a group of kids and moms and weathered-looking women in wind- breakers, started singing their national anthem, alone and a cappella in the big arena. On television, they said, it was a moving sight. In person, the scene was something else: a little embarrassing, a little...
...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT last Saturday during its first varsity football game in 87 years...
Dukakis, by bantering with George Bush about this and other soporific issues, is putting his followers asleep. He is leaving them nothing to cheer about, no reason to say, "I am going to get up on election day and vote for Dukakis because of what he will do about this...