Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pick the Charles River bridge of your choice this morning and watch that "Gong Show of the Waters." The Intramural Crew heats, starting at 8:30 at the Basin. Cheer for the likes of the Eliot House X-V's (which actually beat the Tufts Varsity) and the Quincy House Sea Pigs (which didn...
...desert, from the debacle of Three Mile Island to Detroit's apparent defenselessness against the onslaught of Japanese cars. The flaming power of Columbia's rockets seemed to lift Americans out of their collective sense of futility and gloom. At last they had a few things to cheer: an extraordinary spacecraft-the most daring flying machine ever built-and two brave and skilled men at its helm. As President Reagan told the astronauts, "Through you, we feel as giants once again...
...dream: a blue-eyed American sergeant breaks into a bucolic toy community and despoils the place. Animal figurines and little children drive out the invader. So inspired is Nam that he rushes out to the rifle range and knocks off four G.I. targets in a row. As schoolmates cheer, an instructor exclaims, "When you have enough hatred, you can hit them...
...Walesa's continuing talks with Rakowski. When the Solidarity leader arrived at Warsaw's Council of Ministers building for Wednesday's meeting, supporters hoisted him on their shoulders and chanted his nickname: "Leszek! Leszek!" Barely 85 minutes later, when Walesa emerged, there was nothing to cheer about: there had been no progress. "The government," he explained, "had no proposal in relation to our demands...
...clearest sign of good cheer was a stock market rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average surging last Wednesday to 1,015.22, an eight-year high. The market eased off later to end the week at 994.78. Wall Street has been strong since last fall, when polls showed that Ronald Reagan might defeat Jimmy Carter and bring a more pro-business atmosphere to Washington. Says Monte J. Gordon, research director for Dreyfus Corp., a large New York investment firm: "Reagan has been an aphrodisiac for the market...