Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortest, and easiest, and most welcome where there has never really been a wholehearted step forward. So it was that on a bright, late-summer day, farmers, fishermen and their families-6,000 of them in all-flocked to the ramshackle Wallace Shipyards in Thomaston (pop. 2,500) to cheer "that Ackerman boy" as his new two-masted, gaff-rigged schooner slid down the ways and eased majestically into the clean waters of the St. George River, exactly as hundreds of schooners used to do before steamboats, trucks and trains put most of them out of business more than half...
Adios, Tacho [July 30]! First it was the Shah who tumbled, then Amin, and now Somoza. Let's give a big cheer for the people of Iran, Uganda and Nicaragua who showed the world how to fight against these so-called fearless leaders, who now must hide for the rest of their lives...
Right after the London meeting, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland unwrapped a package of measures intended to bring cheer-and perhaps as much as $1.8 billion in increased income during election year 1980-to the nation's farm lands. Over the next 14 months, the U.S. will sell the Soviets 10 million metric tons of wheat and another 10 million metric tons of corn; the wheat alone is enough to provide every Soviet man, woman and child with almost 100 1-lb. loaves...
...equal time as the males strip and the women patrons cheer...
Tension between power centers is useful in America. But the judiciary ought to reflect about what it is doing. In important respects, judges really are in the same boat as journalists, and ultimately in the service of the same ideals. People who cheer the courts' moves against the press are quite ready to condemn the courts in other areas. If the press is seen as having too much power, so are the courts, and then some...