Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view. Even a tiny item about Ronald Bricker, the unemployed steelworker for whom Reagan got a job at Radio Shack back in April, turned out to be less about Bricker than Reagan. Bricker quit Radio Shack because he was recalled to his better-paying steel job. A double Reagan cheer...
...allow him to return home. President Derek Bok read portions of Walesa's speech, which had been delivered to the U.S. embassy in Warsaw and sent on to Harvard. "Almost daily I receive letters from unknown friends in your country, cards with wishes and expressions of good cheer. I have pondered what could link people living in such different political and social systems and so far from each other. What could link workers of the Gdansk shipyard and the scholarly community of Harvard University? I believe that this emotional closeness is based on a system of shared fundamental values...
...speech clearly excited the conventiongoers, who had been longing for something to cheer about, but the mood of elation quickly faded. Said Richard Gaskill, a delegate from an International Harvester plant in Fort Wayne, Ind.: "It's pretty hard for me to be optimistic these days because they are closing my plant. I think the general feeling is that our people have taken it on the chin long enough...
...Isabelle Huppert and Guy Marchand. Chantal Akerman, a Belgian director whose monumental minimalist soap opera, the 1975 Jeanne Dielman, has made her queen of the European film avantgarde, confounded all expectations with a sprightly, witty musical called The '80s. The Cannes audience came to snooze and stayed to cheer...
Writers have similar problems of finding the right style. Berger, once again, has found the solution. His work may not win any prizes for the celebration of the indomitable human spirit, but The Feud is an affectionate cheer for all the peeves, itches and dreams that make most people tick...