Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene of so much activity two years earlier as Solidarity grew into a force that shook the Communist bloc, was once again covered with red-and-white national banners, papal portraits and flowers. As strikers in drab blue overalls and hard hats chanted slogans, Poles massed outside to cheer them on, tossing bouquets, cigarettes and food through the iron fence. Emboldened by the crowd, workers renamed the shipyard Solidarity, daubing the union's name in a crude graffiti scrawl across the bottom of huge white letters spelling LENIN on a sign above the entrance...
...entire squad expresses unbridled enthusiasm for their Saturday afternoon occupation. They cite a varsity of reasons that attract them to cheering Gill claims "it makes you feel part of the festivities" Ho, who didn't cheer in high school, says "it was something I had always wanted to try." And sophomore Tom Friedman stresses that "cheering has an athletic aspect that makes it a challenge...
...enrollment of 10,000, or 7%. The university actively recruits blacks and encourages their participation in extracurricular activities. The Ole Miss football team is roughly half black; the basketball team predominantly black. In a society where organized sports are more than a ritual, Ole Miss partisans cheer their black players as enthusiastically as they do the whites, and the outstanding ones are authentic campus heroes...
...bother to verify statements when, let's face it, a far more interesting and witty article can be composed based on imagination alone? I admire a man with the necessary dedication and courage to uphold these standards. In fact, I cheer him on. Go-o-o-o Paul!! Christine H. Ho Harvard Varsity Football Cheerleaders
Daily movements in interest rates have become as closely watched as baseball box scores. For three years, the cost of borrowing money has been painfully high and shockingly erratic. This summer, however, the news from the money market has been good enough to cheer about. Since July, the prime rate that banks charge for short-term corporate loans has fallen from 16.5% to 13.5% and aroused hopes for a sustained decline in interest costs...