Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American hospitality, concluded Oxonian Robinson, "I raise a foaming mug of pink ice-cream in ginger-beer (the national beverage) and pledge my sincere gratitude. But a Bronx cheer for the neons, the nylons, and the nut-melbas-each one of the Twenty-Eight Flavours-and Odo-ro-no, Times Square, the subways, the Empire State, drugstores, candy and campuses ... O Lord...
...accepted. He drank deep, and gave a hoarse but gallant cheer for the team. He got some more punch...
...Blue in unison with the rest of the students, only to wind up out of cadence. Now, it doesn't seem too much to ask men of college calibre to make a simple wig-wag motion with the arm in time with everybody else--especially with the cheer leaders standing right in front of them...
...cheer my wilderness...
...control them? Dos Passes sees only one way: vigorous individual participation in all parts of the community. Among the developments that cheer him most: the use of profit-sharing devices, suggestion systems, management-labor committees, cooperative methods of enterprise. These, says Dos Passes, "are frail straws but they exist ... I believe that our salvation depends on our making a stand and recklessly investing all our hopes and energies in [them]. The margin for error is narrowing with breathtaking rapidity. The time is coming when every citizen will have to ask himself at every hour of the day: Is what...