Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that, the office force "broke into a loud cheer...
United once again -- secure now that our leader had returned -- we braced ourselves and ran out on to the field, smiling expectantly at the stands. Nobody noticed. We lined up by the goal posts, prepared to cheer The Team as it ran onto the field. But somebody had neglected to tell us that, since the game was televised, players from both teams would be introduced individually. Right in the middle of a loud and lusty cheer for the first man, we noticed somewhat shamefacedly that he had on a Jets uniform...
...misconception, thinking that we'd stay in one little spot (or at least on one side of the field) for the whole game. But high school was never like this. When we got onto the field, they told us that Patriot fans sat everywhere and we would have to cheer all around, moving from spot to spot. So we picked up our cards and our pompoms and our electric megaphones and our regular megaphones and we staggered...
...frustrating experience to be a cheerleader for the Boston Patriots. Harvard fans are known for their lack of enthusiasm at times, but nothing compared to the Boston rooters. Especially since the Pats have won only one game this year. I mean, how you ask somebody to yell a Victory cheer when his team has just fumbled the ball for the fifth time in a row? At one point,the score was 24-17, and it really looked as of "our boys" might have a fighting chance. So we did both victory cheers really fast, before the Jets had a chance...
...think they are more afraid. Those old religious assurances that there would be a gathering-in some day have largely been discarded, and I see examples all the time of neuroses caused by the fear of death." Harvard Theologian Krister Stendahl agrees. "Socrates," he points out, "died in good cheer and in control, unlike the agony of Jesus with his deep human cry of desertion and loneliness. Americans tend to behave as Socrates did. But there is more of what Jesus stands for lurking in our unconsciousness...