Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT WE SAW did not cheer us. There was a line of black & white clad Harvardians reaching from Johnston Gate to Somerville. A rumour was sweeping through the line that to be admitted you had to be able explain Harvard's tenure system. Of course, this was a lie. You only had to know the Ten Core Requirements...
...college-educated women who were still single at 40 were likely ever to marry. Unmarried 30-year-old college graduates were not much better off: only 20% were likely to wed. Skeptical, Moorman decided to do a study of her own. Her preliminary report, released last week, has cheer for post-20s women who hope to exchange first-time vows...
...clang loudly to the floor but slither there ambiguously. Although Gillian surely understands that she is a kind of human sponge, sopping up all her family's messy emotional spillovers, the script never gives her the sort of revolutionary speech that would make a feminist stand up and cheer. Such words would be out of character and would not make the point as effectively as her steadfastness does...
...usually find out things during coffee breaks, times like that. Also, when I drive out, it is usually in a car with tinted windows. People cannot see in, but I can see out. It really restores my confidence when I see people going out of their way to cheer me, giving me the party sign or just having smiles on their faces. It must be spontaneous because security will not give out in advance which streets I will be using. My daughter has told me, "Ma, when you start seeing angry faces, you know it is time to do something...
...happily. He reports that the stated goals on the applications of incoming freshmen were "money first, followed by power and then making a reputation." Once new students are safely aboard, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett notes that they acquire a certain "smugness" and "arrogance" -- as witness a cheer that goes up when the Harvard football team, per custom, is being crunched by an opponent with less academic panache: "That's all right, that's O.K., You're gonna work for us someday!" This attitude seems even more pronounced in the graduate schools, whose degrees can be a passkey...