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Word: attagirl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...gibbers, growls, simpers, screeches; rolls her eyes, tears her hair, rattles the bars, climbs the walls, bawls a snatch of Alouette, jabs a villain's eyes out with some jagged metal strips; and at the climax, screaming like mad, crawls through the nearest gutter in a $400 negligee. Attagirl, Ollie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivia Goes Ape | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Leaving behind a trail of dust around Moscow's mile-long Hippodrome, U.S. horsewoman Mary Elizabeth Whitney Tippett, 54, goaded on her galloping troika to yells of "Molodets!" (Attagirl!) from the Muscovites lining the rail. The handsome owner of Virginia's $500,000 Llangollen stables, which she got from John Hay Whitney, the first of her four husbands, was in Russia on a very unproletarian job: to advise the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture on how to improve its entries in the sport of kings. "Horses," said Liz, "need no interpreters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 10, 1962 | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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