Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't finish (1928, 1932 and 1956). "I meet people every day now," Keliey says, "with gray heads, bald heads, who tell me how their fathers always took them to Fenway on Patriots Day morning to see the Red Sox and then on to the race to cheer us in. Boston is Boston. It's tradition. But I'm as confused as all get out now. Jeepers, it's a whole new ball game." Kelley's favorite running now is at home on Cape Cod in the morning: "No traffic, no people, no nothing...
LIKE PROFESSIONAL SPORTS, political campaigns end in a championship competition. But unlike the baseball season, for example, which offers 162 direct clashes even before the playoffs, long campaign seasons provide few head-to-head confrontations allowing fans the opportunity to cheer and pundits the occasion to analyze. As a result, any joust short of actual balloting receives an inordinate amount of attention. This is especially so for debates...
...king of international tennis, the Ice-man epitomized the qualities of a superstar, a hero to cheer about and not be ashamed of. Now, however, Borg's reputation is being impugned by fans questioning his dedication to the game: Is he truly a champion, whose love for the challenge remains, or is he like the "others," vitiated by extraordinary talent into a celebrity profit-making enterprise...
...scoreboard in the bottom of the sixth when Carl Yastrzemski, after being greeted by the 32.555 enthusiastic fans with a standing ovation really gave them something to cheer about with a home run into the right field stands for his second round tripper of the young season and the 428th of his career...
...affirmative action but rejected rigid quotas based solely on race. This June, Bakke will graduate from Davis and move on to a residency in anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Bakke did not discuss his appointment with the press. Fellow class members, however, gave him the loudest cheer at the ceremony in which 101 seniors picked up their future assignments...