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...will ever forget sitting on the verdent banks waiting for the crews to come into sight after the start, and always it's the Harvard oars reflecting sunlight that catch our eyes before all others. For it's the Cantabs who take the lead every time. And we cheer as they wisk by, the picture of precision, the ultimate in machinery hewned to a fine edge. A 707 jet in a field of piper cubs. You feel good knowing those men represent...
Judge Elijah Adlow, dispensing good cheer as well as punishment to the parade of petitioners who passed before him, admonished Smith that "when people pay money for a dinner to hear the Vice-President speak, why should you stand up and disfigure the assembly...
...ahead of her time!), she wanted a car, she was mad at the goddamn world for treating her like shit, she was tragically powerless to escape from the bastards who were wringing her through this goddamn machine called school, slop jobs, idiots with pom-poms who wanted her to cheer for the goddamn basketball team when she had to help support her sister and forget that her father was gone, long gone by the time they left Ft. Leavenworth (goddamn Kansas) prison army base, forget the guys she'd fallen for who'd slugged her, Patty, who was smart...
Nixon's glowing predictions also constitute a kind of jawboning of the U.S. consumer, urging him to cheer up and spend confidently. The consumer could use some cheer. Seventy-four percent of those questioned in a Gallup poll in early January, for example, said that they expected unemployment to rise this year. The economic news so far has not been the sort needed to produce instant exuberance. Last week the Government reported that consumer prices in December rose at an annual rate of 6%, continuing the average rate that made 1970 the most inflationary year since...
...ritual was staged again and again a decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...