Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballpark and watched leads disappear in the first two World Series games before deafeningly partisan Philadelphia fans. Largely a home-grown lot nurtured in the Royals' farm system, they were glad to be back among friends. Said Catcher Darrell Porter: "We haven't heard a single cheer for anything we've done for a week. It will be good to get back to our park and our fans...
...Someone was giving a dance to cheer up the brave boys who were going to save the country--which I did. And there I was, 3000 miles away from my home in California just like a sitting duck," McCurdy said...
...Reagans never lived in a house they owned. And yes, the father, Jack, drank a lot and gambled as well, switched jobs often (he was a shoe salesman, mostly) and was sometimes short when the rent was due. But the mother, Nelle, a strong woman of enduring good cheer, managed to keep it all together, teaching her sons that "God will provide...
Unfazed, Carter offers "to make a deal" with the high schoolers--a Presidential day-off-from-class in exchange for the students' support. Fists raised, the entire Friars squadbellowedits approval and led a cheer of "Jim-my...Jim-my!" Only the robed priests who run Columbus High and unwittingly allowed their charges to sell their political souls for a day of hookie looked uncomfortable. Carter began a tirade against third-party candidates (e.g. John Anderson) with an attentive, cheerful audience...
Amid cries of "Get 'em Patti!" and "Looking Good," the runners momentarily forgot about their own races to cheer on Lyons-Catalano, who blazed home with a new American record of 32 minutes, 24 seconds...