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...things are heating up fast enough. Giant Manager Bill Rigney makes no bones about who is going to win: "My young bulls have the taste of first place, and they like it. We're going to win the pennant." The Dodger fans' answer: a rootin'-tootin' cavalry blast on dozens of trumpets carried into the ballpark, followed by a full-throated bellow from the stands: "CHARGE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charge! | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...process of breeding and feeding beef for profit has bred a lot of romance out of the cattle business. The closer the industry gets to its golden calf, the further it gets from its rootin', tootin' golden past. The cattleman has become a statistician, geneticist, chemist, endoctrinologist, pharmacologist, and market specialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE GOLDEN CALF | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...houses, they tell us, have a purpose, which is not without its threatening aspect. They are a "community of learning." Durn tootin'. It's their sneaky way of packing the tutors and other helpful types in so close you can't breathe. The teacher-student ratio around here is 1 to 7, and the way to milk the most out of the ratio is to stack tutors and students in the same entries, like wildcats in a laundry bag. People think I run up and down stairs because I'm busy. Busy, hell. My tutor lives between...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Choosing a House: Some Bitter Truths | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

...beautiful romance. More's the pity, too, because, except for this monumental piece of what might be called "in-house humor," Man Without a Star has a roll-muh-own greasiness and good warm-leather reek about it that is rare in Hollywood westerns. The rootin', tootin' (with Claire Trevor as the whirly-girly) and shootin' are unusually low-falutin. There is one long shot of a man being dragged by a horse through enough barbed wire fence to justify the use of Technicolor in this picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...past 32 years, the Phillips Oilers have been a part of Bartlesville, and by dern tootin' they always will be, championship or no championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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