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That they did. Now the hall was Kennedy blue again as the Senator's supporters displayed their feelings for him, and Carter delegates generously let their foes have one last hurrah. After the ovation died away, Kennedy took command. Nearly each of the text's 150 well-paced sentences drew shouts, laughter or applause. Time and again came the chants: "We want Ted! We want Teddy!" He cut them off by rolling on into his text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Madison Square Garden of Briars | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...Hurrah for the U.S. elections! Imagine any other country that would take off one year every four and launch the world's biggest and most costly circus with a cast of more than 200 million that entertains the rest of us for free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1980 | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...Hurrah for the hockey team! Who said the Olympics aren't political? At the medal presentation every American pore oozed with nationalistic pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1980 | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...course of the descent was so precipitous it would have scared the average downhiller into the snowshoe competition. It was almost straight down, the distance, precisely, from hurrah to blah. The time of the drop was nearly instantaneous. One moment Lake Placid was the most tumultuous news spot on earth, the next it was an amiable litter of vacancy signs. One moment it was the riveting center of the media's eldritch universe; the next it was just another out-of-the-way resort more or less waiting for next summer's convention of volunteer firemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Downhill Plunge, All the Way | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

There's Texas and cognac but no last hurrah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Christmas Reuelry | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

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