Word: cheerful
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...about 40-45 tickets for my friends, so when I finally got in at the end, it was nice to see them all cheer,” Ara said...
...line dividing Africa's Muslim north from its predominantly Christian south runs straight through the Nigerian state of Plateau. The boundary is normally hard to discern. For one thing, people in the same town can belong to different religions but work next to each other, cheer the same football team and even intermarry. But in Nigeria, every few years the divide becomes obvious and stark. Made desperate by poverty and joblessness, and often goaded by manipulative politicians, extremists on both sides go at each other in vicious battles. Plateau state, where cattle herders from the north and farmers from...
Ripped confetti, deflated balloons and candy wrappers scattered across the City Hall lawn were the only remnants yesterday of the party that took place into the early morning hours on Monday, when the city commemorated the occasion with a wedding cake, music and speeches, and thousands gathered outside to cheer for the couples...
...back, a consultant acting as a "marriage counselor" observed silently as flight attendants and pilots, airport workers and reservationists, and even skycaps made suggestions about how to improve service for American's premium passengers. The rancor of early meetings was gone, replaced by--what's this?--a raucous cheer that went up when flight attendants learned they had won a round in a yearlong battle for...half-and-half. Yes, the real thing is again part of coffee service in first class on American. "They've been through a lot, but they're still passionate," says counselor Marc Bridgham, beaming...
...Robert McFrazier. Then a 10-year-old student in an all-black school in Muskogee, Okla., 250 miles away from Topeka, whose school board was the name defendant in the case, McFrazier still recalls the hopefulness of that day: "When the principal announced the decision, a spontaneous roaring cheer came up. We were caught up in the excitement of thinking that things were going to be better, that we were going to have a shot at this American Dream." The promise of fulfilling that dream lured McFrazier to Topeka in 1967, first as a young junior high teacher, then...