Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the bespectacled, felthatted orator could fairly launch his speech, a contingent of over 400 University students had gathered about his sound truck. They then proceeded to cheer him lustily each time he opened his mouth...
...That cheer is the closest thing to official appreciation the band receives. The HAA recognizes its existence, if not its worth, by providing not quite enough money for one trip each season. What the HAA does not recognize is that, along with the unquestionable additions it makes to the color of a football game, both aural and visual, the band adds hard cash to the gate receipts. Although this point cannot be proven, it also cannot be contested very violently in the face of the fact that the Princeton and Yale Athletic Associations, neither of which can back a band...
Most Brazilians had approved the Soviet break (TIME, Oct. 27), and thousands of them gathered before Catete Palace to cheer President Dutra's explanation for it. But the Tribune, smash-up went against the Brazilian sense of justice and fair play. Next day the entire Rio press condemned both the police and the rowdies...
...Before the game, a cheer will be led for the Scarlet--"Harvard, Rah, Rah, Rutgers"; (2) between the halves, Crimson and Scarlet cheerleaders will combine in directing the same Short Cheer, with "Team" substituted for "Rutgers"; and (3) all Crimson rooters should stand and yell when Harvard enters or leaves the field or when the elevens change goals...
...never been greater than at this moment." Presidential recognition of the gravity of the situation is surely a hopeful sign. But even non-residents of Mr. Truman's home state will "want to be shown" Congressional and State civil liberties legislation, enforced to the hilt, before they start to cheer...