Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the standoff began in downtown Warsaw, anger started to surge in the crowd. Shouted one militant through a loudspeaker: "We face the threat of bloodshed on the streets." But then, as thousands of workers, housewives, students and children gathered to cheer on the demonstrators, the scene changed unpredictably and took on a carnival-like atmosphere, resembling a California "happening" of the 1960s more than a dangerous political confrontation in one of the Communist world's major capitals...
...blocks separated by about 100 ft. The men are called "scorchers," an anglicization of the Gaelic word scairt, for shout, and they fill the air with orders and questions and plain gossip. Sometimes they conduct quiz shows, asking questions about entertainment figures, geography, history. When someone wins, a cheer rises in the blackness...
...Prince got the most invaluable of exports-prestige-and with it a new confidence, fresh hope. Britain, like his bride, seemed to bloom. And like the bride, most of the celebrators who showed up to cheer the couple to the church and back from the altar of St. Paul's were young. They will be the foundation on which will rest Charles' eventual rule, and they show every sign of standing firm. There were plenty of punks and skinheads reveling along the wedding route, cheering beside their more conservative contemporaries. If anything, the new Princess seems to have...
...west; he got as far as Northampton, where he now operates Steve Herrell's Ice Cream. Joey Crugnale, who shyly describes his outrageously heavy and rich ice cream as "the best," keeps a player piano jingling away in the corner and sometimes has his store manager cheer up the pilgrims standing in his lines by holding trivia quizzes (sample: "Who was the only actor to win two Academy Awards in a row, and what were the movies?" Answer: Spencer Tracy for Captains Courageous [1937] and Boys Town [1938]). This is known in the restaurant trade as ambience...
...said his companion, trying to cheer...