Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nassau, B.W.I., more than 48 hours after leaving Miami, the 39-ft. yawl Hoot Mon (skippered by Lockwood Pirie, a reformed, Star-boat sailor) drifted across the finish line in the slowest Miami-Nassau race on record and won that blue-water championship for the second year running...
Yearning Readers. England's eagerest astronauts, the slide-rule devotees of the British Interplanetary Society, hoot at the book's "scientific" label. Politely, they suggest that Author Allingham has a highly susceptible imagination or that somebody has elaborately hoaxed him. But Allingham, now undergoing lung treatment at a Swiss sanatorium, cares little if critics point out that saucer pictures have been faked in the past with lampshades, garbage-can covers and trapshooting targets tossed in the air. Such books as his apparently answer a deep and widespread yearning for marvels...
...match with Sweden's Sven Davidson, he eked out a precarious five-set victory. During the second and third sets, which he kicked away, Hoad heard a rare sound-an Australian crowd booing an Australian player. Said he later: "I just didn't give a hoot. I felt I didn't want to play. That...
...reports in the Hearst papers that Godfrey was in a firing mood because of intramural romancing among members of his cast. For this charge Godfrey had a grandly Godfreudian reply: "There is no girl on this show whose job is in jeopardy . . . I don't give a hoot who they're in love with, who they marry, who they divorce, who they have babies with . . . I just hope that if they do, it's with their husbands...
...oldtime cowboy movie star decided that since television had made him famous all over again, he might as well cash in. His ad in Hollywood's Daily Variety trade sheet: "One of America's greatest Western heroes. Hoot Gibson [58], star of more than 350 feature motion pictures. Guest star on television and radio from coast to coast. Now available...