Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrat-controlled House, few Republicans doubt that the budget will be substantially revised. Conceded Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois: "The President can't expect his budget to be swallowed whole." Looking for some cheer amid the dreary economic figures, Michel joked: "Well, it isn't as bad as waking up to the Watergate news...
Most crowd response is favorable, though especially when the band comes up with an original cheer. After the Quakers made their first basket last Sunday, the Penn fans threw dozens of red and blue streamers onto the court. Minutes later, the band yelled in unison: "Roses are red. Violets are blue: the streamers were cute, but you still live in Philadelphia." The crowd loved...
Followers of Harvard wrestling have had little to cheer about in recent years, watching their learn run up miserable League records, but this year was different; this year the patters would turn. Wins against Cornell and Columbia (today's match) would have secured the Crimson's first Ivy League title ever. But as it is the team will probably have to wait another year...
...White House lunch followed a joint session of Congress that was marked by a rare bipartisan cheer. Attending were such ancient adversaries as Florida Representative Claude Pepper, 81, once a red hot New Dealer, and New York's venerable Hamilton Fish, 93, who was stigmatized and immortalized in F.D.R.'s 1940 campaign refrain lambasting three conservative Republican Congressmen, "[Joseph] Martin, [Bruce] Barton and Fish." Among the speakers: Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, who was first elected as a Congressman in 1932; and F.D.R. himself, heard in recordings. Pepper drew guffaws by recounting...
This was the spirit of the Hundred Days. Action, and action now. Said Will Rogers: "The whole country is with him, just so he does something. If he burned down the Capitol, we would cheer and say, 'Well, we at least got a fire started anyhow.' " On Roosevelt's second Sunday in the White House, he remarked at dinner, "I think this would be a good time for beer." That same night, he drafted a message calling for Congress to cancel the Prohibition ban on 3.2 beer. The House approved this on Tuesday and the Senate...