Word: cheeringly
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...FLASHED past in an instant. We all kept cheering, of course, all 400 or so of us, waving the gold-and-white flags the nuns at school had given us. It was October 1965, after all, and to a third-grader like myself it didn't matter that the weather was far too cold for early fall, and that the heavy drizzle had all but soaked through the neat white shirt and grey pants of my parochial-school uniform. Nothing much mattered except that every student of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School was dutifully lined along Queens Boulevard...
...territory, diminishing party lines and defying Washington traditions of discipline. A brief study of the phenomenon came last week from the Historical Research Foundation, showing how some politicians who do not fit the traditional political patterns of their districts have won election by emphasizing sincerity, honesty, good cheer and hard work instead of ideology. Using the modern tools Congressmen have voted themselves-jet travel, television, staff experts - the incumbents have rooted themselves to their home ground and loosened their ties to the capital...
...enthusiastic outburst from the 1,011-member Grand Electoral Assembly was more than a spontaneous tribute to a respected senior politician and wartime anti-Fascist hero. Mostly, the cheer reflected all Italy's relief that a parliamentary stalemate had ended and another political crisis had been averted...
...diathermy and beer to their wounds, anyone not given to xenophobic sulking could agree that justice had been done. The teams that had been eliminated, for the most part, had not deserved to win, and the two sides that faced each other in Sunday's final deserved every cheer they heard...
...been a long time since the Argentines had had anything to honk and wave flags about, and if they could not cheer a win, they would cheer a loss or a kiss-your-sister draw. For one thing, Argentina's inflation rate during the past year has been a staggering 170%-highest in the world. More important, the Argentines have survived-most of them-a decade in which the disastrous Juan Peron returned from 18 years in exile to spread economic and political chaos. It has been a time in which the left-wing Montoneros murdered, kidnaped, tortured...