Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America amusingly roams over the glitzy terrain of contemporary consumerism. Lapham of course rephrases old adages. Radix malorum est cupiditas becomes "It isn't the money itself that causes the trouble, but rather the use of money as votive ritual and pagan ornament." Wealth's inability to provide lasting cheer is limned anew: "Believing that they can buy the future and make time stand still, the faithful fall victim to a nameless and stupefying dread...
...section came back with its own cheer. "Hey, Harvard, you may be in the Olympics, but we're in the pros." Guess Harvard forgot about Cornell's Joe Nieuwendyk, star rookie for the Calgary Flames...
...slalom and GS. Will Zurbriggen sweep five golds? No. That is so much more unlikely than when Killy, in '68, or Toni Sailer, in '56, swept all three events that it does not bear talking about. Tomba, a big, laughing fellow whose name is a drumbeat as his countrymen cheer him on, should take the slalom...
Instead of being a tournament of good cheer and brotherhood among Boston's best colleges (Boston College, B.U., Harvard and Northeastern), the Beanpot--for Harvard, and really for Harvard alone--has been, for seven years, a time of head bashing. Once a year, Harvard finds a convenient wall and slams its face against...
...Crimson had plenty to cheer about, as it captured 12 of the 16 events against an Eli squad that had some individual talent, but not enough depth to challenge the two-time Ivy champs...