Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mockery at the foe, are also wigwagging a message to those of us plebes who are watching: "We still have our handkerchiefs and our standards, and don't doubt for a minute that we still have our power too." Handkerchief-waving is in the spirit of the Harvard cheer held in readiness for losses to lesser schools than Yale: "That's all right, that's okay. You're going to work for us some...
...audience, as Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash shrewdly surmised, was far larger than the modest throng that gathered in Nicosia last week to cheer his proclamation of a new Turkish Cypriot republic on the divided Mediterranean island. It was a ringing declaration, but as soon as it was made public, Turkish Cypriot officials added an odd qualifier. The decision, they said, was not irreversible: what Denktash really had in mind was to call the world's attention to Turkish Cypriot demands, frustrated so far, for a federated Cyprus. Under the Denktash formula, equal political weight would be given...
...Indian banner display at the Cornell game came after about 1000 freshmen had marched onto the field at halftime, spelled out their class year, and ran into the Dartmouth stands While unfurling the 25 foot banner the freshmen began to sing the Indian cheer," wa hoo-wa," which is also considered offensive...
...story depicted Lee being on the point of suicide. It was syndicated all over the country. "I got an enormous number of letters, some from senators and congressmen telling me to cheer up, that one game wasn't that important," he now remembers with amusement...
...Glenn and adds, "Fucking A," Glenn then pauses, and so does the movie, awaiting a response that will characterize not only The Right Stuffs John Glenn but also The Right Stuff itself. His earlier moralistic preaching forgotten. Glenn faces the others and exclaims, "That's right, brother!" His colleagues cheer, and if it weren't for the realities of film, the audience might just pat Glenn on the back as well...