Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PRELIMINARIES of the final and greatest case on the Harvard 1922 football docket were concluded yesterday with a parade that even surpassed the "record-breaker" mass meeting. Never have more Harvard men marched to Soldiers Field to cheer a football team in its last practice. The briefs, "We are going to win" and "We'll beat Yale" reflect unmistakably the attitude in Cambridge. And every Harvard man who is going to witness the trial tomorrow will support the team with the same conviction...
...want to cheer your lungs out for the Crimson this weekend, these contests could provide the outlet you're looking for. You don't have to pay $10 and buy your tickets in advance, you will no doubt get a good view of the action, and, hey, the Winthrop House football team may even give you a beer...
...directors of propaganda films produced by states, especially conventional socialist states with their idiot stress on the homogenized man, fill their frames with crowds, great agglomerations shot from above, or from behind as they cheer some arm-waving uniformed leader. If individuals appear, they represent stereotypes--broad smiles, broader biceps. But the camera in Workers '80 singles out men. Some have the handome Walesa look, bushy mustaches, broad shoulders; some are bignosed, homely, dirty, or dumb-looking; for the most part, just people. Workers standing, arms folded, listening to the negotiations over public address systems. Workers knelling to receive communion...
...Chelsea has been estranged from her father since childhood and now almost never comes home. Divorced, childless, she is living the worrisome ad hoc life of the fortyish woman who is still trying to find herself. The promise of a visit from her before the summer ends does not cheer Norman...
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations celebrate labor's centennial next week at their convention in New York, they will have little to cheer about. Unemployment has withered union ranks. Last month's joblessness stood at 8% of the U.S. work force, up a full percentage point since July and hitting unions like the United Auto Workers hard. About 25% of the U.A.W.'s members, for example, are out of work because of the two-year-long depression in Detroit. Says Union President Douglas Fraser: "We're going through the most difficult period...