Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebration of the third anniversary of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, the dusty provincial town of Masaya, 18 miles southeast of the capital city of Managua, last week was colorfully decorated with flags and posters. A band played revolutionary songs, and the crowds sang along. But there was little cheer in the speech delivered by Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a member of the all-powerful nine-man Sandinista Directorate. "Nicaragua is undergoing a silent, yet bloody invasion," he declared. Ortega charged that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the Honduran armed forces were supporting more than 2,000 rebels who have...
Indeed, as some 900 Democrats headed home from their national midterm conference in Philadelphia last week, they could be forgiven for letting out a cheer or two. Twenty months after Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party stunned them at the polls, they are looking to make gains in the elections this fall and to recapture the White House in 1984. The reason for their optimism: Ronald Reagan. His performance in the Oval Office, especially his failure so far to revive the economy, has become a potent campaign weapon...
Aside from their perceptions of the President, American voters find little to cheer about in the condition of the country. Seventy percent said the state of the nation is poor, which is marginally more pessimistic than the 68% response at the same point in Jimmy Carter's presidency. Almost 60% said they felt things are going badly or very badly in the country right...
...well. The President nodded, literally, in the Vatican, but from then on moved through an extremely taxing schedule with grace, affability and aplomb. He read his big set speeches to members of the British Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like the crude, hip-shooting nuclear cowboy so often drawn by European caricaturists...
...seem to make," Fanny, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, remarked after meeting Emma. She might have said the same thing after meeting Florence Dugdale, Hardy's second wife, who suffered from chronic depression. Typing up poetry that addressed Emma as "woman much missed" did little to cheer up the second...