Word: cheerful
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...motivational to race here at Harvard in front of a home crowd,” Scherf said. “When my teammates would cheer for me during my race it definitely provided me with an extra boost...
It’s not something the casual fan will notice the way he will, say, a hat trick, and thus, it’s not something for which the casual fan will always cheer...
...They should cheer instead. Big Breasts is a celebration of the power of women?as well as a lament about the fecklessness of men?in the world's oldest phallocracy. Mo Yan tells the story of Shangguan Lu, born in the last days of the Qing dynasty, raised with bound feet and married off to an infertile Northeast Gaomi blacksmith who is, she concludes, "a useless gob of snot outside the house and totally subservient in front of his mother." Desperate for a son, the girl cultivates a succession of other dolts and losers, who give her seven consecutive daughters...
...competitors, the event is almost as large as the Head of the Charles Regatta, but the indoor location allows it to be held over the course of only one day. The spectators get to see the whole race and the competitors get the rare opportunity to hear their fans cheer them on, something missing when they are in the middle of the Charles River...
...success, in fact, may be the very exhaustion that has set in among both peoples after four years of bloodletting. Still, Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice?s absence from Tuesday?s talks signaled Washington?s own caution. Having been burned at Aqaba, this time the administration is going to cheer the parties on hold back on intervening directly to force the pace...