Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sundays the older children were expected to make a speech about a personality in the news." Now the eldest children of Robert Kennedy are hoping to bring that ingrained interest in public matters to Washington. The upcoming primaries will be a test of their old family football cheer: "Clap your hands! Stamp your feet! 'Cause Daddy's team can't be beat...
...celebrate our 500th birthday, then, let's try not to get too caught up in the inherent self-congratulatory self-aggrandizement of the event. For with a little effort and a touch of care, we can make it so that there is even more to cheer at some far off, distant date, at another anniversary celebration...
...their homes that Charef succeeds in creating the most human and moving scenes. A picture of bustling, cheerful life on the surface of dire poverty and sickness invents completely the characters of Madjid's family and makes the audience care about them. Madjid's mother, Maika, bubbles over with the life-force that feeds and clothes her five young children, Madjid and the neighbor's child, as well as taking care of her husband, who has apparently had a stroke that has rendered him helpless. The contrast between Maika's helathy cheer and her husband's thin and trembling weakness...
...often that companies cheer the news that a competitor has beaten them to market with a hot new product. But something like that happened last week when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved commercial production of a new vaccine against hepatitis B, a virus that causes an incurable and sometimes fatal liver disease and strikes an estimated 200,000 new victims every year in the U.S. Developed by Merck, the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, in partnership with Chiron, a small (1985 sales: $6 million) biotech firm in Emeryville, Calif., the product is the first genetically...
...mother and grandmother, he pulled out his miniature ceremonial dagger and began poking holes in the dress of Diana's niece Laura Fellowes, 6. When his victim wagged a finger of rebuke, the second in line to the British throne trumped her with a silent, but definitive Bronx cheer...