Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performers labored to prepare free, outdoor art shows and concerts for a New Year's Eve celebration. Like a scene from a 19th century print, Bostonians by the tens of thousands will wend their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United Way fund drive not only...
...some computer-equipped analysts now think that the Dow could lumber up to 950 or even 1050 by late 1978 or early 1979. Maybe -but that sounds all too reminiscent of the wrong predictions being made a year ago, when Wall Street's mood was one of relative cheer...
While the Houston convention was passing its National Plan of Action, a counterrally across town attracted 11,000 women, men and children into the Astrohall, and 2,000 others had to wait outside. They had arrived from far and near aboard chartered planes and dusty buses. Cheer for cheer, epithet for epithet, the "profamily" gathering easily matched the ardor of its counterpart in the Sam Houston Coliseum, and its rhetoric was substantially greater...
...giant-sized "hot dog" (alias superstar) like Reggie Jackson. He played ball with spirit and enthusiasm, albeit a little oddly--with a sincerity that caught the fancy of all who watched him. And the fans flocked by the tens of thousands to see him, to cheer their hero. The oldtimers said they had never seen anything like it, not even Babe Ruth in his heyday had drawn such mobs. Baseball was still the great pastime it had always been, and the crowd loved the feeling...
...football games are more than just athletic events; they are a tradition. For almost everyone besides the statistician, a large part of that tradition is the marching band's half-time show. And the Harvard Band itself is steeped in tradition. Some band traditions, like the hand-shivering excitement cheer, are silent, and others, like band "Mom" Alice Tondel, are unseen (unless, of course, you try to sit in the band's seats during half-time). One tradition that is neither silent nor unseen looms over all others. For those of you who have never been to a football game...