Word: attaboy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attaboy, Butch...
...December. First place goes to the Boston Herald for itspicture of a teenager grinning into the camera with a snow shovel in his hand. The cutline reads, "Twelve year old (Name withheld) shows no sign of birth defects as he shovels snow outside his parents home in Mattapan." Attaboy, kid. Second place to the New York Post for its "Sam Sleeps" cover, complete with a photograph of David Berkowitz catching a few z's in the Tombs. Honorable mentions toonumerous to name... --Joseph W. Dalton and Gay W. Seidman
...connoisseur of cliches has produced his 16th lexicon, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. Its 3,000 entries are liberally defined as sayings that have "caught on and please the public." Here are the phrases that trip resoundingly off the tongue: "Don't just stand there-do something!"; "Attaboy!" Here are the immortal quotes: "Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes"; "All quiet on the Western front." Plus those '60s buzz words: "Cool it!"; "Tell it like...
...were not going to fold in September, he has reminded the American public on the average of two or three times a broadcast how he spent fifteen years announcing Red Sox games. You couldn't escape from Garagiola on the other hand even during the commercials with everyone yelling "Attaboy, Joe" on the Dodge...
...Attaboy, John," says Nixon...