Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music almost every day and night, as visiting choirs take turns singing for the huge crowds that walk in awed silence through the candlelit state rooms. Musty portraits of Presidents from Christmases past have been garlanded with evergreens: even Chester Arthur with his mutton chops got an injection of cheer...
...week. But Christmas, with its echoing cry for brotherhood, its pleas for peace on earth, is a necessary annual nourishment for the presidency, just as important in some ways as the tax receipts. The stage is magnificently set. Word has it that Ronald Reagan will add to White House cheer by singing a carol or two, and Nancy has told her household that there will be snow. The flakes that Jamie Wyeth created in October have been waiting around...
Spectacles like this undoubtedly led some people to question the purpose of the holiday, and, with the rise of Puritanism, Christmas's very existence was threatened. Regarding the good cheer as "pagan" and "Popish," England's Roundhead Parliament in 1643 abolished the observance of the day. The King protested and mobs attacked those who opened their shops. But Parliament adopted strong measures, and for the next 12 years Christmas as a general English holiday ceased...
...poem they are to hear. A few are bearded hippies loyal to the Movement. A few are enervated, gentle, Buddhistic Wasps. A handful are black. All around are flannel shirts, funny hats, sleeping children, the emblems of safe bourgeois funk. Not many in the crowd notice, let alone cheer, the arrival of one honored guest, Radical and Felon Abbie Hoffman...
...never threatened after the first few events, and the 25 or so Eagle fans who attended the meet had little to cheer about except for the performance of freshman Lina Dickson, who posted outstanding first place finishes in the 50-and 100-yd. breaststroke...