Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday afternoon, the speedway was a gathering site, a place where shirtless men and bronzed women, crazy kids and old people who congregated in the top row of seats and wore big hats to keep the sun from their eyes, came to watch and cheer...
Today, it's all different. Baseball has become the sport of computerized Big Brother large-screen color televisions that tell fans when to cheer and whether the umpires muffed up the play at the plate. It has become the sport of artificial turf, covered roofs, ugly mascots, the ever-annoying Wave, gloves the size of California and huge beer...
...scene might have been lifted from the final reel of a western starring John Wayne or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan: thousands of adoring townsfolk cheer as the hero, rigged out in cowboy duds, rides off on a white horse. And just in case some member of the U.S. Congress missed the significance of the white hat cocked on his head, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra spelled out his good intentions last week during celebrations to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sandinista takeover in Nicaragua. In an effort to diminish U.S. anger over the expulsion of its Ambassador to Managua...
...good reason to cheer the cease-fire, particularly in light of how it came about. A major goal of U.S. policy in the gulf has been to prevent Tehran from seizing dominance of the region. After last week's events, Iran seems likely to emerge badly weakened, and possibly as the clear-cut loser in one of the bloodiest conflicts since World...
...dream ticket for the G.O.P.? The more George Bush cites "compatibility" as a quality in a running mate, the less chance Bob Dole has of being picked. At a recent rally in Atlanta, Dole arrived an hour late, cooling the crowd that was ready to cheer the waiting Bush. When Dole was applauded, he joked, "Well, I'd be willing to accept the nomination, but it left without me." Complained a Bush aide: "He still can't accept that it's over...