Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wherever Bowie Kuhn has his shirts stuffed after next August, when baseball plans to let its tallest and most erect commissioner go, at least he will be able to cheer at the ball yard again, a sore deprivation these past 14 years. "I can't have a favorite team or a rooting interest," he once said with a sigh. "Sad, isn't it?" For Kuhn...
...Francine, the hand-holding couple asking directions to the Mongolian Embassy, and Eddy, the German with the bell on his pack at the Russian Embassy, Farewell champagne toasts on platform 7 a.m. departure, Great Wall. Noodle soup with Chinese scientist in the dining car. Talk about China; big cheer from English students as we leave. Chinese home movies at Er Lian station: "Peasant Tourist Makes Visit to Scenic Spot...
...train is a community. At each stop, we dash down the platform to the food kiosk, hoping for anything other than pickles and kefir. The day of tomatoes, eight of us have to sprint for the last car, and all the passengers cheer. The Poles, embassy staff returning to Poland after three years in Peking, smoke heavily during the day and drink heavily at night. They sleep two to a berth, having wedged their luggage into the top bunks. The English, mostly students returning from a year in Peking, plug two-by-two into Walk-mans...
González's campaign ended in Madrid, where a crowd of 200,000 gathered under floodlights to cheer him. Following an elaborate multimedia show, González appeared at the podium for his final pre-election speech. His intense, perspiring face was projected on a giant TV screen, erected over the center stage, that enabled the crowd to see the candidate's face from half a mile away. Dressed in a gray flannel suit and sporting fashionably long hair, González called the election "a plebiscite, which confronts the people with a choice between a Socialist...
Only the dealers have anything to cheer about now. At week's end some were predicting a dramatic rise in the price of the car, and Capitol Cadillac Co., a De Lorean dealership in Lansing, Mich., was negotiating to buy the entire U.S. inventory. The owner of the dealership, Don Massey, estimates that there are some 400 cars to be had, and he said on Friday that he had a deal to buy 100 for an undisclosed price...