Still, cheer up: Abdurrahman Wahid was by no means the worst of the possibilities.
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They go there to cheer up the injured troops back from the front.
And they could certainly cheer up their streetscapes with flowers, trees and parks.
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For anyone that was disappointed at the news that Apple might not include NFC technology in its iPhone 5, cheer up.
Few things are going to cheer up a soldier faster than hearing a friendly voice on the other end of the phone.
Starting in World War II, Hope began donating entertainment hours to cheer up the troops, soon expanding his charity work to other causes.
Cheer up the old folks with a cup of tea, invent the cure for cancer, soak up that excessive production of beer, grow vegetables, whatever.
Inflation, by the Fed's preferred measure, is only a smidgen above the central bank's target range, and rising interest charges are not the thing to cheer up increasingly gloomy consumers.
As we've been reporting this hour, it's opening day for the new Congress, and what better to celebrate your newly elected lawmakers win, or cheer up your outgoing representative, than sending the perfect gift.
We're hearing that access may have ameliorated in at least parts of the country, which would be a pleasant surprise -- not that a sudden improvement in service will cheer up those who know they still face a backlog.
Now that may cheer up the general public, who have long expressed outrage at the hefty bonuses bankers have earned and continued to amidst scandal, economic deterioration and government bailouts -- but it's certainly not music to the ears of British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Perhaps those that pitch up in the summer are simply hoping to cheer themselves up with sunshine and candyfloss.
Later, as the evening was breaking up, Robbins noticed Scott slumped on a couch and went over to cheer him up.
They stop by to cheer me up when the day is gloomy or help me celebrate an accomplishment.
The lessons seemed to cheer them up, as if they were making friends again with whatever they used to know.
He knew the people that watched him worked in mines, in factories and he did his best to cheer them up.
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When Justin Timberlake announced last week he would have something special for us a cautious cheer went up from the masses.
Hansel and Gretel cheer themselves up with some lively songs and dancing.
At that point, I could almost hear a cheer rise up from the swollen ranks of the Crusty Laid-off Newspaper Guild, Local 99.
"It will be interesting to see if people feel sorry for him and are willing to do things to try to cheer him up, " says Simmons.
Sacking Mr Primakov might cheer him up, but there is no obvious alternative acceptable to both president and Duma, parliament's lower house, which must approve the nomination.
If I have posted to the world that I am in a bad mood, you might try to cheer me up, or at least think twice about bothering me.
Surging sales of bras are claimed to be an indicator of economic downturn: women cut back on big purchases in a recession, and buy new underwear to cheer themselves up.
She used her chairs as stands for large photographs and posters, as shelves for vases, and sometimes as hangers for dresses, because the sight of good clothes never failed to cheer her up.
Phra Klairung, a chunky temple secretary in his mid-forties, quickly apologized after the clip went viral, explaining that he was trying to cheer people up after flooding hit the area around his temple in northern Bangkok.
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In a successful attempt to cheer myself up, I went to an unpretentious campus that is a techie nirvana just outside Cambridge, to talk to Warren East, the chief executive of a British company, ARM, that is an acknowledged world leader.
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