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...moment approaches, the squaw slowly draws the young brave into her. Now the first sunlight comes, a blade of white cutting the canyon wall across the way. The brave shivers and the squaw feels a mighty breath growing in his chest, and then a first cracked warwhoop escapes him and goes bouncing and echoing down the chasm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...Jayvee team from Hanover, New Hampshire gave out with an Indian warwhoop after every huddle yesterday but the opposing Crimson squad, which kept relatively quiet on the field, had enough depth and power to gain an easy 27 to 0 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV's Top Indians, Win Easily, 27-0 | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...young men of Paris laughing over it at those luncheons. One Scripps O'Neil leaves his wife Lucy and their daughter Lousy when a chinook wind blows in the window of a pump factory in Petoskey, Mich., causing some Indians also employed there to warwhoop softly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Disrespectful | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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