Word: booed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liquor shortages do not faze Arpad. New Year's Eve he will get tiddledy-boo drunk again. His nephew, Gabe, will have to pick up the pieces, pack Arpad safely home. It happens every year...
...Kretschmer's blunt boo gains force from his experience with eleven castrated patients who had some prostatic tissue cut out besides: "Three of the patients are dead [after] five, eight and eleven months; one patient is bedridden, requiring frequent doses of morphine; three patients have pain; one patient had painful urination and attacks of hematuria [bloody urine]; only three say they are improved after eleven, seven and three months respectively." (Procastration doctors say that Dr. Kretschmer is wrong to discount the initial improvement in his patients, even if it is short-lived...
...Amarillo in 1940 small boys had chanted a steady boo through his speech, he had been tired, his voice hoarse. This time, the train stopped only half an hour in Amarillo, in near-freezing weather. But from dozens of cars parked around the station, the loyal and the curious had crawled out in the cold for a glimpse of Wendell Willkie...
Veronica Lake and her three-year husband, Major John Detlie of the Army Engineers, decided to get divorced. The honey-haired refugee from the peek-a-boo explained: "We just don't think alike...
...honeymooning in England with a U.S. officer she married during the tour (TIME, Jan. 18). But Mr. Lastfogel had begun to organize similar "live shows" for other U.S. fighting fronts. Miss Francis & Co. had found out what soldiers want. Said she: "All we had to do was say 'Boo' and they howled with delight...