Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strongest negative reaction has come from a group of male executives. They didn't mind being portrayed by women. It was simply that they detest the way we depicted them." But the most puzzled reaction, adds Sills, has come from feminists. "They don't know whether to cheer or boo. They're confused and want to think through all of the ramifications." After one screening in Manhattan, several feminists said they were afraid that audiences would see the program not as a satire but as a hideous projection of a female-dominated world...
...station operator, managed to take calamity in stride. His reason: "This is the 26th time I've been flooded since I came here in 1957." At Jack's Union 76 Service Station near Sneedville, Tenn. (pop. 1,000). Owner Jack Stapleton even found cause for cheer, though the Clinch River had risen a record 26 ft. above its banks, sweeping away houses and barns. "The river is going down," he said. "Nobody got killed or hurt bad. The sun is shining, and the birds are singing...
...Janata leaders predicted a landslide by their party, but many realized in the closing days of the campaign that Congress was in trouble. Opposition rallies were jammed, while Prime Minister's audiences were embarrassingly apathetic. Three times during a rally at Varanasi, the chairman called for a cheer for Indira, and three times the crowd shouted no. In Lucknow, women in the front of the audience started to leave ten minutes after Mrs. Gandhi began to speak. Tired of news broadcasts on the government-run All India Radio, which ignored the opposition's campaign and burbled endlessly about...
...promoter, blames the lack of good Irish fighters for this year's break from tradition. Without Irish boxers, the event can hardly hope to fill the Arena, much less the Garden. The people from South Boston simply don't come out to the fights if they can't cheer on the gutsy kid from L Street...
...generation of players, the National Collegiate Athletic Association retained the ban on dunks during warmups. (Regulation-play attrition is high enough: the University of Detroit broke 20 rims, at $30 each, in 27 games.) But it is a niggling constraint, and one scarcely noticed by fans who come to cheer the unleashed superstuffers...