Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan is going, the revolution stays." The billboards adorn the dusty roadways of Managua, a pitiful yelp of triumph in an exhausted country that has little else to celebrate. Yet the Sandinistas can cheer at least this: while Ronald Reagan will be just another private citizen in two months, Daniel Ortega Saavedra -- the man Reagan once called a "dictator in designer glasses" -- will remain firmly at the helm of a government that the White House terms an "outlaw regime...
...icemen don't have many chances to see The Game. Senior Captain Lane MacDonald saw The Game once--and then he wasn't even there to cheer for Harvard. It was on his recruiting trip to Yale, five Games...
...made a modest offer to give Poles management training but snubbed the government's pleas for Western loans and relief on Poland's $36.4 billion foreign debt. The day when Polish officials grant real political freedoms, she said, "you will find your friends ready, not just to stand and cheer, but to help in practical ways...
Havard skating enthusiasts have something to cheer about once again because it's time for the 19th annual "Evening with Champions" skating exhibition...
...American scene: the candidate came down the front steps of his plane and walked across an agoraphobia of tarmac to a crowd of red-white-and-blue flag- waving, sign-pumping Republicans gathered behind the rope to cheer. In the Kodachrome sunshine, one saw the sharpshooters on the airport roof and the shiny black Secret Service van with black tinted windows, an agent standing on the tailgate with his hand inside a black nylon bag that concealed his automatic weapon. The sunshine itself became sinister and a chill of premonition crossed the mind -- the dank American underdream...