Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned at first but had to be called off in favor of an outdoor celebration and parade through Witherbee and neighboring Mineville. There was no hall in the area big enough to hold the crowd that came to cheer the Witherbee boy who had pitched Brooklyn to its first world championship...
...Quebec-usually as solidly Liberal as Georgia is Democratic-the returns gave Liberal politicos far more to worry than to cheer about. In one riding, where the party's 1953 winning margin was 12,591, their margin was reduced to 3,203. In another district, where no Tory candidate had come close since 1911, the lead seesawed for hours before the Liberal candidate finally slid in front by 562 votes. In the one Quebec riding where the Liberal majority was normal, it was a question whether the appeal of the party or the luster of the candidate...
...human race. The stratosphere of Pollyannic joy was reached by Request Performance, which offered The Mumbys, a fable about a passel of vagabonds who magically transform an avaricious realtor and his purse-proud clients simply by camping out on the best lot in the swank subdivision. Robert Montgomery spread cheer with Charlton Heston as a plucky cowboy who triumphs over both the cops and robbers while winning the love of spirited Pat Roe. Kraft TV Theater took the edge off any social satire that remained in its adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond...
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...apparently reasons that the ideal situation would be to have television of all games, assuming the contract is large enough to cover the attendance decline. This would mean that the budget would balance, and the student would be under even greater pressure to get out in the stands and cheer, along with his paying date...