Word: pom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe it's the cheerleaders, who wouldn't be caught dead doing any sort of straight cheer. Harvard does not have a line of pretty coeds with pom-poms doing cute routines, but rather a casual bunch that stroll around on the sidelines giving an "H" and an "A", etc. now and then, but mostly clowning...
...fact, the professionals on New Zealand's 119-year-old Brancepeth sheep station were impressed with Prince Charles' ability to fit in wherever he was during an official visit to meet the Kiwis. Although one dissent was recorded - a cry of "Go home, Pom" directed at his mother Queen Elizabeth after the whole family had got together to open the Commonwealth Games - the wel come accorded Charles by local teeny-boppers was more typical of the royals' reception. "Oh, you gorgeous thing!" cried one of the girls, who were out in force wherever he went...
...flashier contingents was the Golden Spurs from Texas. The thirty-odd girls were decked out in short, fringed skirts, gold-speckled body shirts and red, white and blue "Nixon" banners. They saved red, white and blue pom-poms. "The Golden spurs were specifically invited by President Nixon to attend the Inaugural on a pre-election trip to Texas," intoned the man on the loudspeaker...
...wanted out (Oh, so ahead of her time!), she wanted a car, she was mad at the goddamn world for treating her like shit, she was tragically powerless to escape from the bastards who were wringing her through this goddamn machine called school, slop jobs, idiots with pom-poms who wanted her to cheer for the goddamn basketball team when she had to help support her sister and forget that her father was gone, long gone by the time they left Ft. Leavenworth (goddamn Kansas) prison army base, forget the guys she'd fallen for who'd slugged her, Patty...