Word: hoot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hope is more excited than he has been in years. He doesn't give a hoot that he's about to turn 80, but all the fresh attention makes him feel on top again. Last week the Senate celebrated his birthday and this week NBC is devoting an entire prime-time evening to a lavish tribute from Washington's Kennedy Center. The President and Nancy will be there to honor Hope and his wife of 48 years, Dolores. So will the third generation of pretty young TV women-Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley-who have smiled their...
Maybe it's the people with whom I've been talking at the dinner table, but it's become disturbingly apparent to me that people around here don't really give a hoot about baseball any longer...
...mother, who hasn't watched a game all season, make an early dinner so we'd be done in time for her to watch the game? Why did over half the country park themselves in front of their televisions to watch two teams they didn't really give a hoot about...
...There are little green islands on the lake. An elegant white house sits at the base of a rock cliff on the western shore. In the evening, frogs croak, crickets chirp, and the freight trains of the Canadian National Railway clatter by on the way to Montreal, the loonlike hoot of the locomotive echoing in the woods as if rushing back in time...
...which may engender a certain nostalgia for the drear old days in those who endured them. Today's adolescents sit gap-mouthed and squirmless through them, mistaking them, it would seem, for profundities. Not to worry, though; the movie is more irrelevant than incendiary and often just a hoot...