Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Christmas lights on Harvard Square. And let no one misconstrue their motives. For it was not a base desire for commercial advantage that prompted these men to decorate our humble thoroughfare on the last day of October. Rather was it a sincere wish to bring holiday cheer to a borough caught in the doldrums of the dreary autumn season...
Into the modernistic Civic Center in the Rio Grande city of McAllen (pop. 32,728) last week crowded some 650 Texans to cheer Davy Crockett's words from the movie, The Alamo: "There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other, and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat." Then nearly 200 of them announced their resignations from the Democratic Party and pledged their allegiance to the G.O.P. in Texas...
Discount on Wall Street. Businessmen were not quite so happy at the consumer's tightfistedness. Builders saw little to cheer about in the fact that housing starts declined 2% in August. And though manufacturers' sales of consumer durables rose 1%, no fat backlog of unfilled orders was developing. One reason seemed to be that producers were delivering promptly because they still had plenty of unused plant. Excess capacity and intense competition served also as an inflationary brake, as was demonstrated last week when Aluminum Co. of America felt obliged to cut its basic ingot prices from...
...came to sip," Ogden Nash has written on the cover of Helen Bevington's new book of very light verse, "and stayed to gulp." Searching for similarly unanticipated delights, the CRIMSON presents, as is its wont, a brace of courses that cheer and may inebriate...
When the OAS cavalcade finally came down the road, 1,000 bedraggled people broke through police lines to engulf the cars and cheer the delegates. In Ciudad Trujillo, the biggest opposition group, the Union Civica, called for three days of mourning with a shutdown of all commerce. At night, military police, backed by tanks, patrolled the streets...