Word: cheerful
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...optimism in the air was palpable as the festivities got underway. I joined the hundreds of thousands of onlookers who lined the streets to cheer as politicians, advocacy groups, celebrities and drag queens—a lot of drag queens—made their way down Market St. With more than 200 floats, the parade stretched over three hours...
...game and one has to compliment them for that. But I am especially glad that we won!" Turkey, which is facing a political crisis over the attempt by the secularist courts to ban the ruling party allegedly for flirting with political Islam, put aside controversies to pull together to cheer the home team...
...relief in sight, because Africa's farmers face their own inflation problems and can't easily boost output. The FAO predicts that food prices will remain high for years to come, but that galloping price rises will begin to slow down. For poor farmers that is little cause for cheer. The surging price of oil has made using tractors costly, and the cost of fertilizer has doubled in Uganda over the past year, says Kenneth Kaboi, a 19-year-old farmer who was out in his family's maize field recently in Uganda's lush Kapchorwa district, churning the deep...
...upset: Oklahoma or Duke over Harvard, all in the name of mayhem at Memorial Stadium and Cameron Indoor.I thought longingly of packed crowds at the Big House and the Tobacco Road rivalry, Stanford’s all-around athletic dominance, and the “Boomer Sooner” cheer I’d internalized as a heavenly chant.Somewhere along the way, Harvard fell away from the pack. My father was the first to remind me that I was choosing a university, not a national championship contender.Four years later, I have to thank my dad, both for knowing...
...seen its season come to a disappointing end the night before after a 4-1 loss to Wisconsin in the semifinals of the NCAA Frozen Four, but the squad—for which cohesiveness and teamwork were synonymous with success—had come together one last time to cheer on Vaillancourt, a junior, as she accepted the Patty Kazmaier Award, given annually to the top player in women’s college hockey...