Word: booed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divergent allotment of poor. Their moods are remarkably lacking in self-pity. "My old lady went on welfare after we split up," says John Ross, 27, a white San Francisco warehouseman. "I think it stinks. People are so tied to that crummy check that they're afraid to say boo." Down Salinas way, in the bean-and-lettuce country celebrated by Steinbeck, leather-handed migrant workers?some of them Latin-Americans, whose 2,000,000 poor rank second only to Negroes in the U.S.?work the fields and wreck the saloons in an epic cycle of productivity and degradation...
...media homily. A colleague of Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan at Fordham University, Father Schillaci presented his vision of the sermon of the future to a meeting in Toronto last week of the Catholic Homiletic Society. "If you see anything you don't like," he calmly warned the audience, "boo or hiss or knock the guy next to you off his chair. This is intended to stir up all kinds of emotions...
...recently invoked to arrest a diner at a provincial bistro for drawing a caricature of De Gaulle on a tablecloth, an amateur ceramist for portraving him on an ashtray, a drunk for criticizing him in a bar, and an unsuspecting man in the street for shouting "Hou! Hou! (Boo! Boo!)" at a passing presidential motorcade...
...Toronto Maple Leafs 3-3-although the seating capacity at Civic Arena is only 12,507. The Philadelphia Flyers have been averaging 9,000 paid admissions per game; General Manager Bud Poile beams happily: "This game has really arrived in Philadelphia. The fans have started to boo us and the refs." In St. Louis, Blues Vice President Sid Salomon III says: "We were prepared to wait three years before making any money-but we stand a good chance this first season." In Bloomington, Minn., the North Stars play their home games in a brand-new, 14,400-seat auditorium, dress...
...West, flew home to try to resolve the crisis. His first effort-a pleading back-to-work speech addressed to teachers assembled in Miami's Marine Stadium-ended in failure. Irked by the crowd's hostility, Kirk urged them to "get together with one good rousing boo" for the Governor-and drew only an icy silence. F.E.A. members were angered by his statement to out-of-state reporters that he was "going to break the back of the teachers" and that "it is un-American to turn education processes over to a union...