Word: cheerful
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Several times during Harvard's dramatic sweep of Penn and Princeton, Roby pranced up and down the court, exhorting the large Briggs Athletic Center crowds to stand and cheer for his cagers. The partisan fans responded to Roby's arm waves, and--perhaps, not coincidentally--the Crimson players did too with a pair of upsets...
Surveys by Pollster Richard Wirthlin show the President's popularity inching up again, giving Reagan some cause for holiday cheer. The polls seem to have persuaded the President's strategists that the further away their boss is kept from the controversy, the sooner it will die. Perhaps to that end, the President last week appointed David Abshire, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, to a new Cabinet-level post: coordinator of White House responses to the congressional investigations and other probes into the U.S. weapons sales to Iran and the diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan contras...
...North at one point told McFarlane that the diversion of funds to the contras had been approved by his superiors, according to a person familiar with the operation. North accompanied McFarlane on his May mission to Tehran. In Israel after the mission, North attempted to cheer up a despondent McFarlane by telling him that there was some good news: "We" had diverted money from the arms sales to the contras. On Nov. 25, when Attorney General Meese identified McFarlane as one who knew about the siphoning, McFarlane drafted a public statement saying, "I took it to have been a matter...
...retrospect, Eisenstaedt's exile to America starts to look like a stroke of luck. Amid the prevailing cheer of the postwar nation, his upbeat view of things probably found a more ready audience than it would have in the more somber precincts of Europe. His chief mood is celebration. His chief attitude is assent. Is that the stuff of sweetness and light? Sometimes it is. But who can say no to such engaging sweetness, such abiding light...
Despite what will go in the standings as a win, the Crimson could find little to cheer about last night other than Devin's play...