Word: cheerful
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Nevertheless, Saturday was a day for delegates to cheer on individual candidates—and cheer they...
...found a doozy on Friday night in Seoul, where in the first game of this year's footy fiesta, tiny Senegal toppled reigning World Cup champs France 1-0. "Today a black African nation has beat a white European champion," said Thiam, who traveled from Senegalese capital Dakar to cheer on the Lions. "There is a god, and I love...
...architecture is another matter. It was former P.A. chief Austin Tobin who chose Minoru Yamasaki to design the Twin Towers. Just a few years later, the city of St. Louis, Mo., blew up Yamasaki's much despised Pruitt-Igoe housing project. A large crowd there turned out to cheer...
What is a queen for anyway? As the crowds cheer and rock stars gyrate next week to celebrate Elizabeth II's 50 years on the British throne, the question sounds churlish, even impertinent. Surely we should let the Brits have their fun, let the 76-year-old monarch-soul of probity and dutiful service-have her reward for a life sentence of grand ceremonies and banal conversations, without laboring to figure out why, in the 21st century, she ought to exist. But the question would not sound strange to Elizabeth herself. She has been grappling with it her whole life...
...British advanced. And then a shot was fired. Volleys of fire criss-crossed the green and the Minute Men fled with British in pursuit. When the heavy amount of smoke cleared, eight colonials were dead. The Minute Men survivors returned to the green, the crowd gave a rousing cheer and everyone dispersed to pancake breakfast at Lexington’s local churches...