Word: boose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henaff reasoned with the workers. He told them they could have a bonus, but no wage raise that would wreck the price policy which the Communists and all parties were supporting. A storm of boos almost drowned the end of his speech.
In Philadelphia, Soprano Kirsten Flagstad (who spent the war in Nazi-occupied Norway) got an ovation and boos. Outside the Academy of Music, pickets paraded; inside, stink bombs went off, detectives battled hecklers, and a free-for-all flowered in the third row orchestra.
Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad came to grips with the postwar world in Paris. For her first big postwar concert outside Norway (where her husband died in prison, charged with collaboration), she was booked into the theater where ex-Vichyman Alfred Cortot had played the piano to mixed cheers and boos...
Most familiar in the memory of present undergraduates have been the post-1940 contests, for the surviving members of the class of 1944 who are still without degrees can well recall the Crimson's thrashing of the Elis at New Haven, 28 to 0, in the third-highest margin of...
An irate woman then tackled Boss Marc on his pro-Russian voting record in the House-a thrust that brought a new round of boos. By the time Marcantonio closed his remarks with a ringing "My opponent, Bryan, can go plumb, straight to hell!" he was glaring and disheveled, and...