Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town of St. Marc he promises an electrification project, then tucks into a helping of fried goat. Later he rants to farmers about Haiti's exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and promises that FRAPH will poison the water supply of any U.S. invaders. "Down with Aristide!" the farmers cheer. "FRAPH forever...
Then, suddenly, it's over. Fried goat is served, and the crowd chants in Creole, "Toto for President! Without Toto, Haiti can't have a life!" As the last cheer fades, Constant heads off into the night. It is the end of another day on the campaign trail...
...rushed out an anthology of 10 poems by W.H. Auden that features Funeral Blues, memorably recited in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Aided by a display showing Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, the $6 book, Tell Me the Truth About Love, is selling briskly. The Auden boomlet must cheer Princeton University Press. In September it will publish Juvenilia, 200 mostly unpublished poems that Auden wrote between...
...Bolivians had not been in Cup play since 1950, had not been in these finals before that since 1930, had never even scored in the World Cup, much less won a game, and I had never seen a soccer game, so Bolivia was easy to cheer. The Germans won the Cup in 1990, came in second in 1986 and 1982 and had every right to feel superior. Any old dilettante could see that they played better, with more control, even though this dilettante couldn't find excuse enough to use such sportswriterly terms as teutonic wedge and the like...
...percent of Americans don't have health insurance by 2002, a special commission will decide how to boost the number, followed by a congressional vote on the remedy. It's not exactly what the Clintons wanted. But TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says the White House will be cheered by the issue's forward movement. One other reason for Clinton to cheer: Democratic majority leader and presidential ally George Mitchell will have a chance to change the bill completely before it hits the Senate floor...