Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero's welcome. He was not dazzled. "When I was racing," he said last week, "I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow-hero to zero, I sometimes...
...then desperately tried to make amends by patching it messily with another banana. In the radio and TV gagwriters' vocabulary describing audience reactions to gags, a laugh is the lowest thing on the scale. Then comes the howl. After that they yell, and finally, on rare occasions, they scream. During Young's banana routine, there was no doubt that the studio audience screamed...
...Cleveland tried it a few years back. Hoodlumism has been increasing ever since, until last year over 2,000 robberies, burglaries, street attacks, and rapes were reported. Inventors brought out whistles and small sirens which women could carry in their handbags. Fenn College offered a course in how to scream...
This rocked the gunman, who then asked, "If I leave, will you scream?" Miss Colman answered that she would...
Caught at the Tape. He was in front by a couple of yards and running strongly as the gun popped for the final lap. Then the crowd started to scream-Gehrmann was coming to life on the backstretch. He was second as he came off the turn. Twenty yards from the finish he was trailing by five feet. He gathered speed, plunged desperately, caught Wilt at the tape...