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Word: booed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene goes right for Director Henry (The Bravados) King. The principals stumble around in patent and sometimes comical confusion. Deborah Kerr is a fine, sensitive actress, but when she tries to play Sheilah as a hard-lipped careerist, she looks like a nice little girl about to say boo to a goose. Gregory Peck tries painfully hard to be Fitzgerald, but manages no more than a nightclub imitation of an intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Boo to You. Every bit Macmillan's match at making politics with peace and prosperity, the Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell coupled pie-in-the-sky welfare promises with reasons for tax reform that came oddly from the lips of a man whose brushes with manual labor have been at best fleeting. "People making these capital gains," he had intoned, "should pay tax on them so that we who live by the sweat of our brow, or with our hands, could have it a little bit easier." In the thickening fog of oratorical battle, Labor hecklers twice howled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Dubious Battle | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Minister of Great Britain shouted at her: "And boo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Dubious Battle | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Ethereal root and cheer and boo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bang Bong Bing | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Garcia's own popularity has plummeted. In mid-December, when he arrived at Manila's Rizal Stadium to see the world championship flyweight fight between Argentina's Pascul Perez and the Philippines' Dommy Ursua, the and crowd the Philip greeted him with a thunderous boo, which ended only when somebody ordered the band to play the national anthem. When it was announced that the President and his wife would present the belt to the winner, booing broke out all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Assaulting the Eagle | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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