Word: bawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Niederhoffer reached the semifinals of the singles competition before bowing to veteran Henri Salaun, 2-15, 17-15, 15-7, 7-15, 15-12, in an incredible match that saw the referee bawl out both players, and Salaun apologize to the crowd for his behavior and Niederhoffer...
...this term: differential equations, electrical science, thermodynamics, U.S. Government, piloting and navigation, and terminal ballistics. But in military aptitude, matters such as leadership, decorum, and the cut of his jib, the quarterback comes out, and he ranks twelfth in the class. Deeply religious, he has been known to bawl out nappers in the Navy chapel's "Sleepy Hollows," once remarked when congratulated about a football honor: "That won't get me to heaven any sooner, will...
...Jesus," ten-year-old Penny declares, "and God the same as Mussolini, and Italy and the Fatherland less than God but more than my yellow bear." School is a hodgepodge of religion and Fascism. The children sing Ave Maria with a lily in their right hands; then they bawl out the Fascist hymn, switch the lily to their left hands and give the Roman salute...
...third act of Il Trovatore, had not a single high C in it, but Tenor Enrico Tamberlik (1820-89) started inserting one in the middle and one at the end-and they have been there ever since. The 40 tenors sing in six languages, and generally bleat, screech, bawl and scream in a manner calculated to make any listener sympathize with Rossini's request that a visiting tenor "check his high C with his overcoat...
...belly, was acquitted on "self-defense." H. L. Mencken's picture, done with his usual exaggerated gusto, was taken as real by many readers: "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent . . . Every Baptist pastor became a neighborhood Pope . . . Every pastor was a chartered libertine, free to bawl nonsense without challenge . . . What the poor whites heard from the outside world they heard from the lips of these pious ignoramuses...