Word: hoorah
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...Unusual Hoorahs. Washington has been warning since the expropriation last October that unless Peru paid compensation, the U.S. Government had no recourse but to enforce the law. As a result some critics read last week's action as a retreat after fruitless bar gaining on the issue and scoffed at the "Chickenlooper" amendment."Maybe there was an element of brinkmanship in this whole situation, and if so, we blinked,"said a U.S. official in a back ground observation that was later contradicted by the State Department. Gen erally, however, the U.S. received the kind of welcome hemispheric hoorah that...
...Hoorah for the Red, White and Blue! (Golden). A masculine. 14-song choral salute to flag and country (The Caissons Go Rolling Along, The Halls of Montezuma) that goes off with a rousing, old-fashioned Fourth of July bang...
...editorial hand, Commentary has devoted a sizable part of its space to Jewish problems. It has printed articles for & against Zionism, though some readers have called it anti-Zionist. Others have even accused it of being too calm about anti-Semitism because it didn't join the popular hoorah over such tracts as the novel Gentleman's Agreement and the movie Crossfire...
...local earthquake. They even went so far as to whip Voltaire's poor old-Candide because he had merely seen a Portuguese eat a piece of bacon. Now it is the astronomer's turn to be whipped. And some people even hope that jazz and the hip-hoorah of modern Pep will drown the roar of the sidereal universe. None of these, of course, considers that one shift of the celestial pole in a mere 25,000 years will make grass grow on the present north pole and put jelly fish in even the most modern of our office buildings...