Word: boose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France. In Paris, war-weary poilus returning from Syria were greeted at the Gare St. Lazare by stones and boos from an unruly mob which shouted, "Down with Vichy!", "Down with the occupying authorities!", "Long live Russia!" Of six people killed and 19 wounded, when police fired on the crowd...
This deal burst like a bomb on the sweltering, restless convention. The Reuther group bellowed: "Cheap politics." Dick Frankensteen's lame explanation that he did not want to "crucify" the North American local got more boos than cheers. President Roland Jay Thomas, as inept as a June bug, bumped...
> At an America First rally in Chicago, mention of Churchill drew boos. When Colonel Lindbergh said that England was in a desperate situation, her shipping losses serious, "her cities devastated by bombs," he was stopped-and embarrassed-by applause.
Scallions and resounding boos to TIME'S reporter who covered the Academy Awards Dinner [TIME, March 10]. Perhaps he didn't get enough free drinks. Perhaps he wasn't introduced to Dorothy Lamour. Perhaps he wasn't there.
There was no doubt that Wendell Willkie had been read out of an isolationist position he had never held. He was damned for not winning isolationist Republican Congressmen to his view, for thinking of politics as a personal crusade and a fight for ideas. Stubborn as ever, he shook off...