Word: tallyhos
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After her first weeks at Pennsylvania's Edwardsville High School, the visiting teacher from England was almost ready to pack up and go home. Her American pupils, she reported, "greet me with anything from 'The top of the morning to you' to 'Tallyho,' and occasionally when they are changing classes, a head pokes through the doorway and calls, 'Hi ya, ma'am, what's the scoop?' or something equally imbecilic...
...quick look. "Bandits at eleven o'clock," Preston barked over the radio, meaning: enemy planes ahead, a little to the left. The enemy formation was unusual: twelve twin-engined TU2 bombers and 18 propeller-driven LA9 fighters (both Russian World War II types), guarded by 16 MIG-153. "Tallyho!" yipped Preston, and led his fast jets in for the kill...
...Tallyho! In Alexandria Bay, N.Y., Mrs. Earl Hall outran her husband's hounds, killed the fox barehanded...
...Tallyho! Near Bristol, England, a fox led twelve headlong hounds to a cliff's edge, ducked safely into a hole as the dogs plunged over the brink...
...Something Sinister." That was the tallyho. Squarely in the middle of the field as the Mead pack took out after the Garrsons was the baldpated, leaden-hued figure of Andrew Jackson May, veteran (15 years) Congressman from Kentucky and long-time chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Witness after witness took the stand to testify that he had worked hard to help the Garrsons. He had introduced Henry Garrson to Ordnance Chief Major General Levin H. Campbell Jr.* He had arranged to unfreeze Garrson funds which were blocked by the Government pending renegotiation. He had prodded the WMC into...