Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Such cheer has yet to percolate among many ordinary people, who have learned to distrust official forecasts and have been turned off by Washington's frequent abrupt changes in economic policy. Jay Schmiedeskamp of the University of Michigan's respected Survey Research Center reports that "the level of consumer confidence is still greatly depressed." The center's latest survey, conducted during February, showed that only 8% of the questioned consumers expected to enjoy good times within the next five years; 61% expected hard times. The unemployed (8 million active job seekers, plus 1.1 million people who have...
Alumni would pat Kitredge on the shoulder as they walked by him after the fights, but I didn't cheer him up. "I don't know," Kitredge said, shaking his head, I walked right into him I just walked right into...
...Crimson holds a 10-0 League record with an impressive 19-3 overall mark, while Dartmouth stand 1-7 in the Ivies and 4-16 in ECAC Division 1. With exams one week away Big Green fans have little to cheer about, but tonight 2100 of them should pack Davis for the season's final home contest...
...potent force in hockey has added immeasurably to a growing interest in the sport. For better or worse the Flyers have brought new muscle into the game. Fans cannot resist their intimidating play and all-too-eager fights. In Philadelphia, 17,007 pack the Spectrum for every game to cheer on the "Broad Street Bullies"; on the road, S.R.O. crowds come to boo the tempestuous enemy. The cry for blood explodes whenever Flyer Enforcer Dave Schultz (6 ft. 1 in., 190 lbs.) starts swinging for the nearest hostile jaw. Inevitably, other teams have been infected by the mugging malaise...
Through coconut groves and brown, fallow rice fields, along muddy canals and traffic-clogged boulevards, millions of Thais made their way to tin-roofed voting pavilions last week in the country's first genuinely free election. If the 40% turnout was disappointing, there was still cause for cheer that the balloting went off as smoothly...