Word: boo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington's last student conference -the leftist American Youth Congress, sponsored, like many another, by Eleanor Roosevelt - met two years ago on the White House lawn to boo a speech by the President. It applauded John L. Lewis and the Russian invasion of Finland...
Blond Senior Johnny Bunker, and ex-Freshman Pete Garland both grabbed places in the high jump, Bunker took a third, and Garland tied for fourth. On the face of it, this looks only mediocre, but the winner was the famed "Boo" Morcum of New Hampshire, who stepped out to a phenomenal new record of 6 feet, 5 inches...
...Tickety Boo." After Lord Louis got his three different ranks someone suggested that he alternate in Army, Navy, R.A.F. uniforms. Lord Louis stuck to his braided Navy blue. Londoners often see him at about 9:30 each morning, driving himself to work in his four-seater Ford (Priority No. 14). Nowadays, he has almost no club or social life. Often, he lunches on sandwiches in his headquarters office. "All tickety boo," he says when everything is as he likes it, in apple pie order...
...State Sumner Welles arrived in the middle of a heat wave, Aranha was ready and waiting. Three times the 42-ton Clipper circled the lavender hills around Rio's bay. At the airport 2,000 Brazilians cheered themselves hoarse, knocked down one lone man who started to boo, trampled over gaily uniformed grenadier guards. Before leaving Washington the supposedly icy Mr. Welles had kissed his wife good-by with the tenderness of a lad going off to the wars. Now the Rio welcome must have touched him as much as a lad coming home...
Whether they relish it or not. Author Schuman sees that they get it, for he belongs to the totalitarian school of liberals and this is his way of saying: Boo! He wants his readers to understand that the history of Europe's last decade is going to be the history of the human race for an unforeseeable future-unless they do something drastic about it soon...