Word: cheeringly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whose ear has been tuned by popular music but whose developing tastes lead him to folk music. Where the purer folk singers such as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger alienate some audiences with their austerity, the impure Christys, like the Kingston Trio, win them with the warm good cheer that makes everybody at least a vicarious minstrel...
...crew, hockey and football. He joined Exeter in 1932 to teach history, and after World War II, in which he saw combat aboard the carrier Bunker Hill, returned as chairman of the history department. In 1946 he was so popular that hundreds of boys marched through the rain to cheer his appointment as Exeter's ninth principal. "Call me Salty." said he when the cheermakers stumbled over his name, and so they have ever since...
...indication of Keating's new status occurred recently at a Republican dinner on Long Island. Keating was not there, but Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton was. "Morton was trying to warm up the audience," says a man who attended the dinner. "He tried to get a cheer out of them by praising Governor Rockefeller. They were dead. He tried again with Javits. Again they were dead. Then he started building up Keating, and the 1,000 people in that crowd just about brought the roof down...
Over 4200 yelling Yalies jammed their way into New Haven's Ingall hockey rink (seating capacity 3908) Saturday night, but found very little to cheer about since the Crimson spent the evening white-washing their Bulldog skaters...
...ancient stadium, the noise these days is like feeding time at the zoo. "They expect us to win every game and don't think another team should even touch the puck," says Pilous. "But that's better than the old days, when they'd cheer you because they felt sorry...