Word: cheerful
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...riders argued their case and won. For the rest of the country, the patriotic course is presumably to forget they were ever in strife and cheer for them in Athens. But there's an alternative, which is to stop stifling those pangs of disillusionment. Justice may have been done, but coming on the eve of the festival's return home, this episode makes cherishing the Olympics a little harder. For devotees, it's time to immolate the fantasy and see the Games as they are: not wholly rotten, but deeply flawed...
...riders argued their case and won. For the rest of the country, the patriotic course is presumably to forget they were ever in strife and cheer for them in Athens. But there's an alternative, which is to stop stifling those pangs of disillusionment. Justice may have been done, but coming on the eve of the festival's return home, this episode makes cherishing the Olympics a little harder. For devotees, it's time to immolate the fantasy and see the Games as they are: not wholly rotten, but deeply flawed...
...approach Stubby Clapp as he's walking through the mall or pushing his cart down the grocery aisles. Many ask for his autograph. Some invite him to their children's birthday parties. They admire the intensity with which he plays second base, they love his congenial nature, and they cheer each time he does a back flip when he takes the field...
Eagerly awaiting Moore’s arrival, the crowd at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge grew restless and began to cheer his name after the filmmaker did not appear at his scheduled time...
...Edwards is revving up his partisan rhetoric, he's also tamping down his populist style. He has stopped thrusting his thumbs wildly in the air when crowds cheer him, adopting a slower, statesmanlike one-thumb move. And while "hope," "optimism" and the "politics of the possible" are still favorites, he's dropped the "two Americas" speech that wowed Democrats during the primaries. He sometimes even skips saying he's the son of a millworker. Edwards has also learned deference. When a New Orleans woman asked him what he could do to protect her pension, he told her the campaign didn...