Word: heyes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother Bill who is eleven months old yells out, "Hey, Mom, for the love of Pete, give that brat some milk, how can we menfolk get our rest with all that catter-walling...
Vacationing among the onions and Percherons on his 1,000-acre farm in Ontario, loud Premier Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn barged ebulliently into a St. Thomas filling station and, finding no operator, went to work on the gas pump himself. "Hey, you can't do that," yelled the attendant, appearing at last. "It's against the law!" "The law is an ass-I'll have it changed," grinned Farmer Mitch...
...stick along a picket fence for a machine-gun effect, and now and then humming snatches of some-silly tune that he happens to like. It's as if he chanced to be walking by the studio when some-one poked his head out of the door and said, "Hey, you. Carmen Lombardo just saw a mouse and fainted. Do us a favor and take his vocal chorus." So Bing said, "Sure." It was as if he made the record because he happened to be the only one around. He just sang the tune, in other words...
...quiet squad rooms (All right, there'll be no skylarkin' in barracks.). First they had learned to march, how to shoot out their feet and straighten their knees, not plod along like civilians. And they had learned that a soldier marches with his head up (Hey, you, eyes off the deck.), is alert in obeying commands (Get going, you Camp Fire Girls.). They had been given a quick splash into military courtesy (Salute, you, this ain't Boys' Town...
...been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly in their ears had rung the exasperated, encouraging, profane cry of the sergeants: Work, not magic, makes a soldier. (Hey, you, quit dopin' off-you can't learn it lying down...