Word: howl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, veterans flocked to Faneuil Hall to howl and hoot at speakers who opposed a proposed increase in the state bonus from...
When the General's views got around, a hell-to-breakfast howl went up. Stars and Stripes alumni recalled a year-old legend: General Lee, like the late General Patton, had tried and failed to get Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe (who grew up in Stars and Stripes) suppressed-or shaved. One old grad, Colonel Egbert White, fired a hot protest to Chief of Staff Eisenhower, called Lee's order " a drastic departure from the policies you established and supported." (In Paris, an officer once ordered Stars and Stripes to do something for the boys: print...
...Tories tried to howl him down, but it was no use. "I know the medicine is nasty," roared the Battler, "and I know you'd do it again if you were in power." Labor cheered wildly. "I have a clear card in my union; I want this Act off the statute books so that we have a clear card before the law." Then Ernie swung his knockout to the Tory solar plexus. "We Socialists are here. . . in power and we are going to stop here...
...President picked Louisville's lanky, jug-eared ex-Mayor Wilson Wyatt as federal housing boss. It was immediately apparent that Wilson Wyatt was going to have trouble. Real-estate boards and construction men all over the country forthwith set up an outraged howl over the President's request for ceilings...
...Cree Indian named Jake whom he considers his good-luck charm.) This time Prospector Campbell invested in more durable things than wheat futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district, complete with 500 rolls of music. Then Mrs. Campbell hid the mail-order catalogue because "it held too many attractions for George...