Word: cheerlessness
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...suggest that there is nothing so cheerless to the male body of spectators than male cheerleaders going through their lethargic routine. These young men may be doing their best, but there is nothing so inspiring as a young lady enclosed in tight sweater and short skirt, leaping high into the air with the end of a cheer on her lips--and the eyes of the spectators following her every motion...
...inner antagonist snorted. "Against Cornell, Army, Princeton, etc., and etc., you are going to have a pretty cheerless afternoon waving the dear old flag. How much better to view the game as an exhibition of magnificent skills, in a setting of glorious pageantry. A change of attitude will do wonders for your stomach lining...
...fast-moving Eliot team took Lowell for a 13-0 ride yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. Next door, cheerless Dunster played without substitutions until the last quarter, and lost to Adams...
...wrestle with Britain's worsening financial plight, the conference of Commonwealth finance ministers met last week. An official later described the cheerless scene in Room D of the British Cabinet Offices: "They sat at blue-black, baize-covered tables in a hollow square, all looking inward and all with their backs to the wall." At one morning session, scheduled to begin at 10:30, a Commonwealth representative arrived ten minutes late. "Good evening," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, with a frosty smile. "Good afternoon," was the reply...
Until last night, the absence of D'Oyly Carte had made 1949 a pretty cheerless spring for this Gilbert and Sullivan fan. But some devoted enthusiasts at Winthrop House and Radcliffe thought the situation intolerable, and under the direction of Sam Wilson, they have set it right with a rollicking presentation of "Trial by Jury...