Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevalence of uniforms on the streets-and the constant stress on the need to hate the U.S. Yoshi Hisano, a Japanese businessman who was in Pyongyang the day that the U.S. plane was downed, reported that for a few hours last week the capital was in a surprisingly cheerful mood. There were numerous parades, fitted out with the standard banners and placards in honor of Kim's birthday. Early that evening, however, radio and television announcers spat out bulletins on what they called North Korea's "brilliant battle success," and the birthday cheer was replaced...
...mass meeting. When a motion repudiating the right of the corporation to close down the university was introduced, the chairman ruled it out of order. The students demanded that it be presented anyway, then passed it with an overwhelming "Yes!" that bounced off the stadium walls like a football cheer on an autumn afternoon...
...personally want no negotiations," said Mark Roberts, a teaching fellow, at the loudspeakers later on. "There is no reason to send a negotiating team to Washington because there is nothing to negotiate about. There will be no contracts." And the cheer that followed later turned into a voice vote that said once and for all a majority--no longer a minority--of Harvard now saw that ROTC must...
...Year. The foundering American Basketball Association reportedly offered him $1,000,000-to play for any A.B.A. team of his choosing. But the Milwaukee Bucks, of the established National Basketball Association, topped the bidding with an undisclosed, but obviously monumental, package. His fortune assured, Lew could be pardoned a cheer or two. But right now, he insists, "I'm thinking only of getting out of school in June...
Bringing good cheer...