Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Civic Association, which opposed him for mayor, is strictly a businessman's outfit. Eddic feels it doesn't "care a hoot" for the little fellow who elects Sullivan. "They're like the local Republican party and I'm a Democrat." After being mayor less than a week, Sullivan announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor's Council. He's lost only one election in his life: running for County Clerk of Courts on the Democratic ticket in 1952, he was defeated in the GOP landslide. "But it took Ike to beat me," he beamed...
...pitchers, thought they were home free when they bought Sal ("The Barber") Maglie from the beaten New York Giants. But The Barber has been taking a trimming in the American League. His new teammates have been leaning with much more assurance on the batting skill of another oldtimer, Outfielder Hoot Evers, 34, bought from the Baltimore Orioles just last month (after a fading career with Detroit, Boston and the Giants). With a couple of timely homers, Evers helped the Indians recover first place after the near-disastrous week that saw them lose three straight games to the seventh-place Senators...
...Goshen, N.Y., in harness racing's Kentucky Derby, Scott Frost, a three-year-old California bay colt, took the $85,000 Hambletonian. Time for final heat: 2 min. 3/5 sec., only 3/5 sec. slower than the record set by the winner's sire, Hoot...
...Everyone will agree on the importance of collaboration with Russia-now and in the future. It won't be worth a hoot, however, unless it is based on mutual respect and made to work both ways. I have sat at innumerable Russian banquets and become gradually nauseated by Russian food, vodka and protestations of friendship. Each person high in public life proposes a toast a little sweeter than the preceding one on Soviet-British-American friendship. It is amazing how those toasts go down past the tongues in the cheeks. After the banquets we send the Soviets another thousand...
...only frankly pro-Western ally along the southeast border of Red China. But its government is also autocratic and corrupt. Communist propa ganda makes heavy capital of these facts, but for the most part the amiable Siamese themselves, generally smiling and invariably well-fed, seem not to give a hoot...