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...into their already rattling paper bags. The truth is coated in coconut, and chocolate, and pistachio to satisfy the historical sweet tooth. (Her unidentified lover has been said to be Judge Lord, T.W. Higginson, her brother Austin, and her father, Edward Dickinson.) The ghost is unable even to say Boo. Emily Dickinson's grave has been a raucous place compared to the privacy of her Amherst room...
John the Bold. The source of what is now known as the Kennedy determination to "work harder than anyone else" was, as nearly everyone knows, the garrulous mayor of Boston. John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald prided himself on an ancestor named "Shawn a Boo" (John the Bold) and took as his slogan: "What I undertake, I do. What I want, I get." Honey Fitz proudly took Rose with him everywhere, and the girl never forgot that she was the mayor's daughter. She quoted her father so often that friends nicknamed her "Father says...
...chow hall. There are separate menus for the two prevailing cultures on board. The Cajuns get their rice, beans and gumbo and the Mississippians their ham, greens and potatoes. Then they talk sex, watch television or play a Cajun card game called Bourée (pronounced boo-ray). To a visitor, there seems a relaxed camaraderie aboard, as though the men had achieved a kind of brotherhood through suffering. Still, there is no desire by the men to see their experience repeated, particularly in their families...
...Boo to Mendelssohn. Both the change, and the apparently unexceptionable choice, set off something like a national debate. Editors were swamped with letters, and one subscriber threatened to whistle during the playing of Mendelssohn. Orchestra posters in Jerusalem were defaced with scrawled messages: "Boo to Mendelssohn." Music critics naturally were all for Schoenberg. Only Zeitlin seemed pleased to see such excitement over music. "The whole country is up in arms on the side of Mendelssohn or Schoenberg!" he said. As critical pressure mounted, the orchestra announced a compromise: it would give an extra free performance of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto...
...beloved Cowboys were lurching toward a 38-0 drubbing from the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cards jumped off to a quick 17-0 lead, and raucous Cowboy fans began screaming for Quarterback Craig Morton's scalp. "We want Meredith!" they chanted. Don, who had heard the same fans boo him on more than one occasion, sighed: "Man, you don't know what trouble is till you're 17 points behind in the Cotton Bowl...