Word: rah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard backers. Seven times in those nine years (and the last four times the game was in Cambridge) the men from Old Nassau have prevailed. So it's time for the revitalization of a Harvard song or two, and a change in the losing trend. It's time for rah-rahs and go-get-ems. It's time to put down these paper Tigers...
...Your rah-rah piece on the North Star State [Aug. 13] evokes memories and nostalgia-principally for those marvelous lakes. Surely you stirred a million of us expatriate Gophers to sing one chorus of Hail! Minnesota. But there was one grievous error about the Minnesota mosquitoes: it is the dive bombers that are half the size of the native anopheles, not vice versa...
...audience feels this, too, but there is something uneasy, something dishonest in Herb Gardner's original Broadway comedy. The fact is that Murray, however appealing, is disgusted with the very world that creates the play: his snide, wise-guy humor and his rah-rah sense of fun sit smugly in the hackneyed phrases and conditioned attitudes of the Madison Avenue mentality he scorns. This is hardly getting down to the roots of self-honesty. When a sentimental and moralizing tone begins to rear its nasty little head near the end, the message, which is fairly muddled anyway, becomes downright offensive...
...lucky greeting said "Hi Al and Curt, Hi NBC, Hi Mom, Go J.B. Rah Crimson...
...Pierre doesn't consider himself to be a vocal type who will do a lot of cheer leading to psyche a team up. "I'm definitely not a rah-rah type, although a little of that is good for a team," he said. "Example is the best way to be a captain...