Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following suit, President Clinton has declared that every classroom should be wired to the Internet by the end of the century. He is met with great applause and cheer, because we know that cutting-edge technology is the key to a good education...
...people have the ability to "earn" what we call a position of "merit," but simply lack the tools to do so. Perhaps they are not so fortunate as the average Harvard student--or the average American college student. Perhaps they did not have a mom or dad who would cheer them on at basketball games. Perhaps they did not have the money to pay for an SAT preparation course. Perhaps they did not think it was even necessary to prepare...
...finally his best friend (Alan Boyle), those pop cultural pictures--hard to say whether the carelessly violent or irrelevantly instructional are more damaging--fill up the empty spaces in his mind. Fill them to a kind of ghastly overflowing, which the film recounts with perverse but curiously appropriate good cheer...
...body movements alone showed the enjoyment that the ensemble had in performing this. Fun-filled, not only did the orchestra have a great time performing this lively end to a great concert, but the audience had an equally pleasing experience watching such energetic faces and talented musicians. Loud cheers and an enthusiastic orchestra complemented Russell as he came out for a second curtain call. Happily, Russell slightly tripped over the harp on the way back to the front of the stage, only to fumble with his clarinet while trying to receive a multitude of bouquets. With a third curtain call...
...Harvard handed Stanford its first loss at Maples Pavilion in 60 games because all of the Crimson's players showed the poise necessary to make 5,000-plus fans a non-factor. All you had to see was the way Harvard's bench would leap to its feet and cheer with fists pumping every time a teammate hit a crucial bucket to understand the type of desire and character the Crimson displayed...