Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exuberant shouts and whistles exploded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Tossed paper filled the air, and traders battled their way through small mobs to reach their posts. At midday the ticker slipped 13 minutes behind trading. In mid-afternoon brokers paused briefly to give a cheer when another record for market volume was broken. At one mad moment a message flashed across the exchange's electronic bulletin board that a planned fire drill was canceled because of the heavy trading. Roars of laughter mixed with the buy and sell orders...
Such thrills are the stuff promoters' dreams are made of. The whole night, however, is a carefully orchestrated show and still not completely a sporting event. The NFL changes rules and hires cheer-leaders to make football more exciting, but the hype and showmanship of a motorsports event is unique...
...Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund, 60 private volunteer bodies and the interests of 60 governments converged upon the broken land. In their eagerness to help, some groups brought in outdated drugs, woolen underpants of no use in a tropical land and, to cheer the refugees, Japanese children bearing harmonicas; in their ignorance, many pampered the very men who had shattered the country...
Celebrated Pole Vaulter Billy Olson did not, but he was of good cheer. Mindful that his indoor sessions are better, Olson said, "Maybe in 1988 I should go out for the Winter Games." Former U.C.L.A. Star Mike Tully, 27, performed the tallest vault by any American in history, 19 ft. ¾ in., and the first of his three subsequent attempts at a world-record 19 ft. 3¾ in. looked rattlingly close. Spectators were enjoying the thought of Soviet Record Holder Sergei Bubka opening his U.S.S.R. Today the following morning and receiving the news. But Tully came no closer...
...cheer, when suitable events arise...