Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times she repeated that litany and then, because the other victims still had not been identified, she began adding numbers-eleven in all. Frowning slightly, the chunky, moon-faced defendant sat slumped in his chair. Moments earlier, walking into the courtroom, he had turned to his two gloomy attorneys. "Cheer up, boys," he joked, "and keep a straight face." On the way out, Gacy winked at a sheriffs deputy...
...only because of widespread ageism, Ronald Reagan's victories in the South and elsewhere should spark a brief moment of nonpartisan cheer among the nation's senior citizens. After all, the 69-year-old candidate did triumph at least briefly over the suspicion that anybody past middle age is a candidate for nothing but the pasture. To be sure, the issue of Reagan's age is not typical. It does make sense for voters to take a cold, actuarial look at anybody seeking the White House. But the more prevalent American way of judging the elderly...
...With a cheerful grin, she simply describes the hospital as "o.k.," and leaves it at that. As Carville's youngest patient, skipping through its pastel-pink corridors in pink jeans and a ruffled white blouse, her exuberance and optimism undoubtedly have some effect on the older denizens. Many of them have lived at Carville for decades, creaking through its paint-peeled corridors in wobbly wheelchairs. Does she cheer them with her smiles? Or do they look at her and fear for her future, seeing their own shattered features mirrored in her ravaged face...
...vocational high school. They play with headlong, madcap and deliberately amateurish intensity punctuated with agog appraisals of the audience. Gazing out at the roistering hordes, the Ramones look like a quartet of glue sniffers who have just crashed a model-plane convention. Adoring audiences respond in kind; they cheer when Joey brandishes a black and yellow sign that reads GABBA ABBA HEY!, the Ramones' own e pluribus unum...
Jeff Robinson gave the home fans one final cheer when he cut the lead to 4-3 at 16:16, but even pulling their goalie couldn't give the Larries the equalizer, and Greg Britz popped one into the empty net at 19:22 for the final tally...