Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indefatigable booster, FDR spent much of his editorial venom on those men who lounged about their rooms, not attending practice to cheer on the football team, not coming out for various squads, and not listening to speeches. One of his reading period papers featured this appeal: "It seems a pity that more men do not realize the pleasures and benefits to be had from membership in one of the various musical organizations in the University. The Freshman Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs, which practice through the winter and give three or four concerts shortly after the spring recess, offer...
...York City didn't have too much to cheer about in 1981. The Cosmos lost the Soccer Bowl. The Yankees lost the World Series. But Christmas sometimes brings about a change of luck, and any skeptics should ask New York's football fans...
...Ordinary People in apocalyptic dead pan-or with the cauterizing fury of a Bunuel satire. A ham-fisted director like John G. Avildsen (Rocky) need not have applied. Nor were Bill Conti's services required: his score sounds like a Spike Jones symphony of klaxons, sassy trombones, Bronx-cheer kazoos and the Hallelujah Chorus. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd maneuver through this minefield on literal flat feet, turning the Blues Brothers into the Two Stooges. Go back to Saturday Night Live, guys. The show could use you. And right now, you need...
...does not laugh in telling it. He was being evicted from his home. As he was pushed out the door, he suddenly beamed at the children who were standing watching the spectacle, and he made a V with his fingers as a victory sign. The children gave him a cheer. Hilda giggles at this story, and tries out the sign with her own hand...
...record was 12-0. They won the Orange Bowl over Nebraska 22-15 New Year's night, and the wire services anointed them champions of all college football. But a National Collegiate Athletic Association probe of Clemson recruiting methods is in progress, so nobody knows whether to cheer just...