Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...objectivist speaker barraged the ear with one generality after another to the great cheer and awe of the crowd. Some classic examples of his profound wisdom: "A is A," "Existence exists," "Freedom is the right for man to think" and--my favorite--"The good man lives, thinks, produces and respects others." He highlighted his otherwise vacuous talk with some select quotes from Rand's fiction and tossed in a few textbook points from Kant and Aquinas to make it all seem more legitimate, i.e. academic. Of course, the audience members, waving their well-thumbed copies of The Fountainhead, furiously shook...
From the point of view of Mentavlos and Messer, though, this is too little, too late. The Citadel fought a long and bitter battle against coeducation, with cadets sending up a great cheer of victory when Shannon Faulkner, the first female entrant, left campus in 1995 after only six days. And this entrenched attachment to its all-male traditions may have helped foster a belief on campus that hostility toward the new female knobs--as Citadel freshmen are called--would be tolerated, or at least overlooked, by the administration. For coeducation to work, more than a written plan was needed...
...sailing team is ranked fifth nationally, but its spectators are usually two or three team members to cheer each person on, members said...
...Horse shows are a little traditional, and you can't yell while people are going over jumps, just because of the way horses are. You're only supposed to cheer at the end of the ride," Fielding says. "We get some people, but it's kind of hard to ask someone to see six hours of horse show when I jump for all of a minute...
...windy day, and they had the buoy for a tight turn, and the fans would cheer if a boat tipped over or something," he says. "You can't think about it too much, but it's pretty exciting if you're coming down the course towards that turn and you can hear the spectators cheering in the back of your mind...