Word: attaboy
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...Attaboy, Pete," shouted Anderson from behind. "Keep...
...crowd loved it. In Ike's half-hour before the mike, they stopped him with cheers and yells of "Go to it!" "Attaboy!" a total of 61 times...
...fingers stood on the asphalt. There were few spectators left, and fewer moved toward him. For a moment, even the scraps of torn paper in the gutter were resting. Then Murphy's hands pushed him up; he started to run again. "He'll never make it," a man muttered. "Attaboy, Fred," shouted another...
...street clothes are jogging beside another racer. "Come on, Joe. Attaboy. Almost there." At the corner of Exeter street they stop and he heads for the finish line alone. The street is broad and empty and he runs straight down the middle of it. On the sidewalk, a little girl is whimpering because her balloon has been destroyed...
George Bernard Shaw, 91, enthusiastically endorsed a British organization called the Anti-Women Society (for "men's rights"), though he declined an invitation to join. "I am far too old," said he, improvising his nouns as he went along. "I can only send you this attaboy...