Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immediately what it was doing there and why it had survived the blast; it included a short piece called "What Do Our Hearts Treasure?" White tells in his unsentimental, concrete way about a Christmas he and his wife had to spend in Florida, about their vague unhappiness and forced cheer--and their pleasure when a box arrived from back home in Maine, out of the blue, and proved to be full of fir branches whose scent filled the room...
...traditional post-marathon beef stew served by the BAA has been replaced by a pre-marathon pasta party sponsored by Ronzoni. But from the beginning, Boston has been immensely popular: the seventh running of the marathon in 1903 attracted 200,000 spectators. This year an estimated 1.5 million will cheer the runners on as they move from Hopkinton to Ashland to Framingham to Natick to Wellesley to..."Its obvious strength is 100 years of the best runners in the world," says Bill Rodgers, the folk hero who has won Boston four times. "But it is also the best course anywhere...
...marathon three or four times and the Boston marathon only once before," Naomi Reid says. "I'm just going to be there to cheer him on and carry him home...
...immigration or trade can you fully grasp what the word "earshot" means. He has a different term for it: "going iambic," marshaling his punch lines into warrior poetry. "They are honed," he told TIME. "You work on it and you work on it and then you get the cheer line...
...collective cheer went through the 'Net this past Saturday night, as gamers around the world spread the long-awaited word: Quake is coming tonight...