Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pierre doesn't consider himself to be a vocal type who will do a lot of cheer leading to psyche a team up. "I'm definitely not a rah-rah type, although a little of that is good for a team," he said. "Example is the best way to be a captain...
...trips into the countryside, Perón carried gifts for everybody-candy, bakery goods, a kilo of meat, a pair of shoes. Rarely did peasants realize that the gifts had been "requisitioned" from local shopkeepers. But they were ready to cheer when Evita told them, "There is only one Perón. He is God for us, so much so that we cannot conceive of heaven without Perón. He is our sun, our air, our water, our life...
...zonah! Ben zonah!" The chant at the soccer match between Tel Aviv Hapoel and Jerusalem Hapoel was not a cheer for the home team but an angry denunciation of the referees. Though the epithet means "Son of a whore!" in Hebrew, the referees were more relieved than offended; after all, the abuse was merely verbal...
...government education program for fans, game tickets are now printed with standard admonitions: "Don't cause your team to be punished. Do everything you can to calm people around you." Israeli TV and radio will soon carry programs on sportsmanship, and schoolchildren will be instructed to cheer rather than boo an outstanding play by an opposing team. Acknowledging that the education may not be 100% effective, the Football Association also plans to erect security fences between the fields and the stands. For all the preventive measures, however, many soccer officials feel that it will take more than one season...
...give the companies a kind of exposure and impact that otherwise would be beyond their reach. Alas, ticket sales were disappointing, and the City Center (which tried a similar venture on a smaller scale two years ago) has no immediate plans for another marathon. All the more reason to cheer the companies that most enlivened this one. Items...