Word: toot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entering my 30 years of service as school committeeman, councilor and twice mayor. Will the big brass and corporation vote for me on election day? Never! They'd dance in Harvard Yard with joy if I lost the election. I think President Bok would go on a "toot" for a week if I lost, I think the "nobel" scientists would drink DNA if I were no longer a councilor. I know that I will be re-elected on November 6 and when I am, I will toast them all up at Harvard with a P4 DNA Cocktail...
...could doubt that he was working at least as hard on this vacation as at the White House. But Carter obviously found the journey invigorating. On the bow deck as the Delta Queen paddled down the river, mostly at a stately 3 m.p.h., the President bobbed up at each toot from the flotilla of pleasure craft that escorted the Queen. Many times he restlessly scanned the tree-lined green bluffs through binoculars; whenever he detected something that might be a waving arm, he lifted his arm in instant response. One afternoon he leaped atop a rickety deck chair to wave...
That must have been quite a toot. The international border meanders by the freshly painted porches of stately, old Victorian houses, across shady green backyards, between sprouting rows of beans and lettuce in stubbly gardens, even through the shelves of books in the town's Binational Library, across the narrow Tomifobia River and the dusty, noisy corridors of the factory that spans it, and finally along the floor of the Bolducs' living room...
Trying to cope with the worst dollar disaster yet, the Carter Administration last week seemed in peril of following what has become a distressingly familiar pattern: a portentous roll of publicity drums that builds up to a toot on an uncertain trumpet. Early in the week the dollar came under a concentrated cannonade from some financial Guns of August, and its steady, summer-long retreat turned into a disorderly rout. It fell 4½% against the Swiss franc in a single day, while the price of gold, the ultimate refuge for investors worried lest their dollars become worth much less...
...jazz musician who is worth a toot knows what July 4 means. July 4 is the birthday of one of America's great founding fathers: Louis Armstrong. The life of the incomparable Satchmo spanned virtually the entire development of jazz, but that uniquely American music did not disappear with Armstrong's passing at age 71 five years ago. Indeed what is remarkable about jazz is that its original face has never been lost. The music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles...