Word: hurrahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly Manila's unkempt streets swarmed with men, women & children, shouting "Veektory!" and "Mabuhay!" -the Tagalog "Hurrah!" From the little the Japs had left them, from the fullness of their hearts, the Filipinos pressed gifts on their deliverers. A small boy darted out to hand a precious egg to one startled American. Other Manilans broke into a Jap-operated brewery, lavished bottles of beer on their liberators. One gaunt, toothless, ragged woman had nothing to give. But she hobbled out to catch and kiss the hand of an embarrassed colonel. She sobbed: "God bless you, sir! God bless...
Pilots and air crews drew the public cheers for the dramatic Saipan-based B-29 bombings of Japan. But airmen themselves had a special hurrah for the prop men of the show, the Army's aviation engineers. In building bases for the Superforts, they had performed one of the great engineering feats of World...
...year or so ago the goodtime Charlies were hiking to the Top of the Mark on Nob Hill or streaking for the Pump Room in Chicago or screaming for cracked ice in the Adolphus in Dallas, but now there is all the trouble and hurrah anyone could ask for in Times Square and Madison Avenue. Manhattan is once more America's play town de luxe...
...juggle the "Mid-Western league" against the "Eastern league," and play one conductor off against another as if American music were a species of indoor athletics. "Life" recently announced, in its paternal way, that it was becoming "unpatriotic" not to like the Shostakovitch Seventh. The result of all this hurrah-boys publicity about the mere periphery and mechanics of music itself, which, unlike football, can't be made a universal pastime without cheapening it beyond recognition. It takes as much practice in listening to understand Beethoven as it does practice in reading to enjoy Shakespeare. It is also foolish...
Navy men have long fumed that the Army grabs the glory while the Navy has done most of the fighting. Some admirals have advocated a high-pressure Hurrah-Navy campaign; others have preferred to suffer in seadog silence. But one 65-year-old admiral waited no longer last week...