Word: whoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whoa-oh, I'm as evil as could...
...Whoa! I thought that was settled. I'd only stagnate there; know that. So would you. We're well-suited for missionary life, you and I. Settling in a new country, building a church up out of nothing...ahh! There's something about...
Swing Classics (Lionel Hampton and his jazz groups; RCA Victor). A collection of some of the hallelujah blasts-Whoa Babe, Central Avenue Breakdown, Jivin' with Jarvis-that made Hampton tall on the bandstand back in the late '30s, when most of these tracks were recorded. The assorted personnel-Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie. Coleman Hawkins, Jess Stacy-are first-rate, and the unremitting frenzy of their attack is a fine antidote to the cool moods of modern chamber jazz...
...Whoa" & "Woof." Last week, busily at work with his year-old pointers, Morton explained the art and science of training dogs to hunt birds. "A dog has to learn to scent the body of the bird, not his track," said Morton, "or else he'll be pointing at where the bird was instead of where he is. If a breeze is blowing toward him, a good dog can pick up the scent of a bird 100 yards away...
...teach a dog how to point, first you get him to stop when you say 'whoa.' A good dog will stop in mid-air when you say that and come down motionless. Then you watch for the little 'woof' a bird dog gives when he smells game. Every time he says 'woof' you say 'whoa.' Finally you teach him to hold the point. He'll hold it for half an hour or longer...