They go there to cheer up the injured troops back from the front.
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.
Once upon a time, the party leadership would use the annual conference to cheer up the membership, to raise the morale of activists ahead of battles to come.
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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.
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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"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.
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.
To cheer themselves up the Tory leadership points to John Prescott's defeat and their success in PCC elections in crucial parts of the national electoral battleground in the North West, the East Midlands and Wales, but they know UKIP's success will add to the pressure on David Cameron to harden up his euro-scepticism.
You can put more light fittings in your den to cheer the place up.
But there was nothing much to cheer about growing up in the Petrero Hill Housing Project in San Francisco, nothing much but the gym.
If they can't get the public to stand up and cheer them on this issue, they'll just keep looking for another issue to try to smear Clinton and then another one and another one, etc.
They are dedicated, passionate and you can rely on them to show up and cheer along with the rest of the crowd.
But not everyone is lining up to cheer the Philharmonic's visit.
Fans of the Seattle SuperSonics, the beloved NBA team whisked away to Oklahoma City in 2008, will soon have reason to stand up and cheer.
Those who stood up to cheer the most emphatically when presenter Dustin Hoffman announced Tarantino's name were African-American actors in the film, including Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington.
And when the Hawks visited Wrigley Field during the Crosstown Classic, they did something even tougher than winning the Cup -- they got 40, 000 Sox fans and Cubs fans to stand up and cheer at the same team. (Laughter.) Never happened before.
Many of the more knowing Never-Betters turn for cheer not to messy history and mixed-up politics but to psychology to the actual expansion of our minds.
Those who agree with the Obama side of the fight will continue to cheer their approval just as Americans who line up with the GOP will continue to boo the President in disagreement.
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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.
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