Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enterprising young Armand Viau, lately hired to whoop up the city's qualities as an industrial center, had been told, he said, that a delegation would look over Quebec this summer. He had blueprints of great, new ultra-modern buildings ready to show them. The architecture naturally would be Old Quebec. There would be three large buildings costing $10,000,000, a hotel and suburban houses...
...British are not quite as imperturbable as they seem, but last week they seemed more imperturbable than ever. After taking five and a half long years of war, work and worry in their stride, they now planned to control their V-day whoop & holler. Some fine day soon, the King or Prime Minister would solemnly proclaim the official victory-and the rest of that day Britons would be expected to go about their business as usual. Next day would be a duly designated national holiday, a proper time for celebration. No extra supplies of beer or spirits will be released...
...With a whoop and a holler, the packing industry last week launched an all-out attack on the Office of Price Administration's price ceilings. Up before the Senate's Agriculture and Forestry Committee, which is probing the meat shortage, stepped dapper, sandy-haired Wilbur Laroe, spokesman for the 700 companies in the National Independent Meat Packers Association. Said Mr. Laroe: the OPA is largely to blame for the meat shortage because it has followed a "social philosophy which regards profits...
Behind this war whoop was strong-man Juan Domingo Perón's and his cohorts' fear of the effects of Argentina's hemispheric isolation. They would desperately like, even in absentia, to curry favor at the inter-American conference in Mexico City. To rig up some semblance of democratic thinking and pro-Allied feeling, Argentina has recently...
They lined up for photographs. Pat Hurley reviewed a hastily assembled guard of honor. Bugles blared. General Hurley snapped to attention, saluted. Then he gave China's Communists the greeting that had wowed the Russians-the Choctaw war whoop he taught Red Army men at Stalingrad: "Yahoo...