Word: cheerful
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...overdog nation with an underdog mythology. We were founded when a scraggly, improvised army of renegades beat a superpower. Now we're a superpower that squashes scraggly, improvised armies of renegades. Our popular idea of a self-made businessman is Donald Trump, the billionaire son of a millionaire. We cheer for Seabiscuit when the rest of the world knows that we're really War Admiral...
...semifinals of Panorama, an annual music festival that this year takes place on Feb. 12, serve up something headier than fruit juice. The exuberant competition pits around 30 professional steel bands of 60 to 120 members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens' feet), jerk chicken and plenty of local beer and rum drinks. The musicians - who all play their instruments...
...would have thought, my friends, who would have thought 20, 10 or even five years ago that Chile would elect a woman as president?" Michelle Bachelet told thousands of cheering supporters who turned out Sunday night to cheer her election victory. Nor was it just any woman who had shaken conventional wisdom in one of the continent's most socially conservative Roman Catholic countries, which only recently legalized divorce: Bachelet is a 54-year-old physician, an agnostic, a socialist and a single mother of three. Her candidacy also offered the electorate an opportunity to reckon with the trauma...
...return a phone call and e-mail requesting comment yesterday. The suggested note to Waters reads “Thanks again for your generosity,” a suggested message that is offered for nine other Post-It notes. Other notes appear simply intended to spread Christmas cheer. “Best wishes for the new year,” reads a note for Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Class of 1977—not yet updated for this year. “The kids are still talking about your talk this past spring!” The e-mail containing...
...smiled. “The show must go on!” AND ON GOES THE SHOW: 5 minutes United at last, Fee led his team in one final cheer. “F! M! Is the best! We get sex like none of the rest...