Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie of the night. This was St. John's only cinema. On the other was the Olympics, specifically the U.S. women swimmers going for gold in the 4X100 medley relay. As the American anchor touched the wall first, everyone took time out from the movie to cheer and chat excitedly about another medal for the Americans. The scene was a commercial NBC could only dream...
Ford recalled his decision to name Dole, then a Kansas senator, as his running mate in 1976. "I found Bob Dole fit to be president then; I find him even more qualified today," Ford said. He won a rousing cheer for calling Clinton "a convertible Dodge. Isn't it time we had a trade...
...list of those who would denigrate tragedy by treating it as a curable disease. Good coming out of evil is always a popular angle on a story. If nothing else, victims can always be ennobled by tragedy, finding a new meaning in life, growing and changing for the better. Cheer up, America! No matter how horrible things seem, the future is always bright and tragedies are mere glitches on the road to happiness. On. Dec. 21, 1988, I found out what a lie that is. My only child is dead, and for me grief is constant and permanent...
...Olympic trials, he became, perversely, even more famous. Johnson went on to take the bronze, while O'Brien was left to choke down his embarrassment on the sidelines and serve as a track-and-field commentator for NBC in Barcelona, a task he took on with characteristic good cheer. "It was heartbreaking and crushing," he says now, "but the thing about it was, I would wake up and I could look at myself in the mirror and just go, 'I had a great go at it.' That was the cool thing about...
...deal," I told him at the time, in an effort to cheer him up. "Epstein said the only thing in his file was that he was observed dancing the kazatsky at a 50th-wedding-anniversary party for his Aunt Yetta, who was once engaged to a Trotskyite...