Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...columnist for The New York Times recently observed that New Yorkers are the only people in the world who cheer when you tell them of the city's horrors. People live in New York even though they know it is crimeridden, overcrowded and over-rated; having to struggle with New York is the sadistic pleasure that lures people to the city...
...feeling for the first time that I wasn't like them any more. These people, it struck me, were perhaps the real Southerners, and they were neither poetic nor haunted by the past; they were clean-cut, well-fed young future businessmen and housewives, conservative and full of good cheer. I, on other other hand, was a little scrawny and scraggly-haired by their standards, my clothes a little too old and loose-fitting, my conversations tending toward the morose and reflective where my old friends were at complete peace with the world. They seemed to look at me with...
...world, she was the perfect presidential wife, tireless, modestly chic, coolly regal. To her family, she was the ultimate support, so accustomed to smiling through adversity that it became routine. When she was a girl, she once said, "life was sort of sad, so I tried to cheer everybody up. I learned to be that kind of person...
Outside the White House on Thursday evening, an exuberant crowd of about 3,000 collected along Pennsylvania Avenue and in Lafayette Square. Some waved sparklers, some carried vindictive placards (EXECUTIVE DELETED, IMPEACH THE SYSTEM), and one planted on the White House fence a slightly spaced-out message of cheer: DING DONG, THE WITCH is DEAD. There were also some tearful admirers (GOD LOVES NIXON) who prayed for their fallen leader...
...Champion Lori Lynn Raye, 15, and Sugar-Rocker Craig Johnson, 15. Modest Mark admitted some identification problems in his new career. "I'm not Tom Jones and I'm not a cow," he allowed. Perhaps thinking nostalgically of the days when all it took to gain a cheer was winning another gold medal, he added, "This is a lot harder work than swimming...