Word: pom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must take immediate action. Precious University resources are flowing from the endowment coffers for pom-poms and megaphones; pleated mini-skirts for the gals, and snug-your-bum slacks for the guys. Underprivileged students, meanwhile, yearn for larger scholarships; scientists of every stripe cut throats for research funds; and the window men at Lowell House have vowed not to remove their scaffolding until someone starts paying the bills down there. Can we afford cheerleaders in times of fiscal austerity...
...When the Patriots got cheerleaders, they went from a promising young team to a good club that couldn't win the big game and on to a team that now can't buy a win. The Pittsburgh Steelers are the only franchise now in the NFL without a pom-pom squad. They are also the only team ever to win three Super Bowls. If we did away with sideline distractions, would we be able to beat someone besides Penn at home...
...people of increasing authority repeating those first cries of astonishment. She enrolled at Vassar, then a college for women. In the nonconformist atmosphere of the late 1960s she was able to slop around there in jeans, with an old felt hat pulled down to her ears, and drop her pom-pom girl impersonation for good. She established herself quickly as an actress at Vassar. She never seemed to care especially about being a star, recalls Clinton Atkinson, who directed her in the demanding lead role of Strindberg's Miss Julie. But it was clear that she would go beyond college...
Well-scrubbed, pep-filled, and pom-pommed, the cheerleading unit debuted early in the football season. They cried...
There is something ludicrous about seeing Bo Derek in the deep, dark jungles of 19th century Western Africa, for she is such a product of late 20th century America. Her giggly California high-school pom-pom girl accent does not mesh with the romantic, metaphorical lines she is called upon to recite. When her line reads: "Yes, father, many things in life are like that," her voice says "gimme a large order of onion rings and a vanilla shake." She belongs in an Orange Crush television commercial. She belongs on a beach in Venice. California, or in a dune buggy...