Word: boo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite content that you should "own" the atomic bomb, kill the ump, boo the Dodgers and eat more steak than the unfortunates without your borders, but your mode of posing it in international magazines is (we think) not the very best way to win friends and influence people...
...faithful knew. When the revival meeting was over, about a thousand right-thinkers-Wallaceites, Communists, fellow travelers and troubled innocents-clumped determinedly two blocks east to the huge Roxy Theater. They lugged picket signs and clutched bundles of leaflets, which had been prepared in advance. They were out to boo the opening of The Iron Curtain, the anti-Soviet propaganda story* of Russian atom spies in Canada. (TIME...
...long day. He seemed oblivious of the crowd, but it was just a mannerism: he knew full well that all eyes were on him. And he knew too that the mere sight of Jockey Eddie Arcaro is enough to make hundreds of red-blooded New York horse-players boo...
...Theater on Saturday with the express purpose of shouting down the speakers used tactics that are almost too unoriginal to warrant censure. They have been used repeatedly by Communists to prevent the opposition from being heard; they are also darkly reminiscent of pre-1933 Germany. But unoriginal as the boo, shout, and catcall may be, whenever used to stifle free speech, they demand public denouncement...
...Alabamans knew that a coon as big as Kissin' Jim couldn't stay holed up forever. What would happen next? As they waited for him to burst out of the brush, nobody seemed to know whether the voters would boo, cheer, or just gawk as though they had seen a pink giraffe...