Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday, August 27--How do you measure the worth of what you're doing? Tonight we jounced over a horrible rutted road to a village about ten kilometers away, to show films. The villagers had been alerted ahead of time, and as we drove in a great cheer went up from the kids lining the "main street." I grinned from ear to ear in the darkness as the kids cheered, that sound seemed to make the whole two years worth while. Fifteen minutes later, of course, I wanted to grab the same kids by the throat and throttle them...
...were squeezed in alight mass, hemmed in on one side by a 12-ft. wire fence, on the other by a cordon of police and their dogs. When the R.A.F. Comet whistled to a stop and the chubby, unsmiling man appeared at the cabin door, they loosed a thundering cheer. "Mambokadzi tinoda nyi-ka yehu!" roared the black Rhodesians who had come to greet Harold Wilson last week. "Your Majesty the Queen, we want our country...
World has been bruited about in certain feminist circles that Radcliffe women should be permitted to "cheer," as they put it, for the Harvard football team. These creeping mergerists of mergering creeps, call them what will you, claim that that the sight of scantily clad young women leaping into the air, legs well apart waving sticks with colored paper on their ends would have a beneficent effect on the team's performance. We view this position with more than a jot of disdain and more than a title of alarm...
Those schools known as the Ivy League have long held the gridiron to be a masculine domain. Stout-hearted lads with long horns and strong drink can and have provided all the cheer the serious university needs. There is certainly no total exclusion of women. They are permitted to sit in the stands. But if they are allowed to gambol on the field of play who is to stop them from participating in the very contests themselves? Are we to countenance the sight of the finest products of our young ladies' seminaries, helmeted, and padded, raging at each other like...
Message Undelivered. On the eve of Loyalty Day (Oct. 17), the tension reached the point where President Arturo Illia decided to forbid all Peronista demonstrations. Next morning 5,000 well-armed police patrolled Buenos Aires streets. Out came some 6,000 Peronistas-as much to taunt the cops as cheer Perón. By nightfall, more than 600 of the rioters were in jail. Isabel had dropped out of sight, and Perón's tape-recorded message had gone undelivered. President Illia then warned that any unions dabbling in politics would lose their legal rights. The Peronistas called...