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Word: cheered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duty to spread Christmas cheer...

Author: By B. K. Wenceslaus, | Title: Crimson Beneficence | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

Even in a state budget crisis there are huge white lights hanging from almost every tree in Boston Common, where sleigh rides take weary shoppers on a snowless ride through the city's center. A Christmas tree and menorah keep up the pretense of holiday cheer inside the gold-topped State House, where carollers sing while a weary legislature trims a budget rather than a tree...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: There is No Snow in Boston | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...Bouquet, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dreamscapes | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...that the current administration is on the wrong side of the Central America issue--but it is not up to me or Baer to scare the daylights out of those who disagree with us by dropping unidentified phony draft notices in their mailboxes. I wonder if Baer would cheer if the campus pro-life movement got a list of all undergraduate women who have had abortions, and then sent them phony letters from the president asking them to report downtown for a psychological interview. That would shock these women out of their complacency, right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COCA Notices Were Invasion of Privacy | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

Such a puerile cheering section hardly impressed this Princeton visitor who came to cheer his team. If that is what it takes to win games on the Harvard campus, I am very disappointed. I had thought more highly of Harvard. Grenville Cuyler Charlestown

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Fans Are Puerile | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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