Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa Journal, listening to the political whoop-de-do across the U.S. border, commented...
...Unbelievable. He devised brand-new production-line methods to turn out the infinitely intricate gun mounts, which contain some 7,000 watchlike parts. To man his plant in manpowerless Minneapolis, he raided other companies, even gave his workers a $10 bonus for each new worker brought in. To whoop up pro duction he served turkey dinners in the plant for 25?, gave War Bond door prizes, installed foot baths for employes, bombarded them with such Hawley slogans as: "Let's work like hell for liberty." The Navy showered "E's" and praise on Hawley. Said one admiring naval...
...Merrily We Roll Along." In the Senate chamber, while the organist struck up Merrily We Roll Along, the anti-Fourth Termers settled down to business with a whoop & a holler. Without debate, they rushed through resolutions demanding that the Democratic national convention: 1) seat their delegates; 2) restore the old two-thirds rule; 3) go on record for white supremacy. All three resolutions had a powerful snapper: should the Democratic national convention refuse these Texas demands, then Texas' 23 electors will not consider themselves bound to vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee...
...only six votes in New Hampshire, Tom Dewey now apparently had plucked off 25 votes without seeming effort. With a neat bit of stagecraft timing, Joe Hanley, Dewey's faithful Lieutenant Governor, turned up in North Carolina to keynote the state's Republican convention. Forthwith, delegates with whoop & holler voted unanimously to "draft" New York's cagey Governor...
...unproductive acres near Callander, Ont. He still farms the same soil (hay, oats, cattle), but only in a supervisory way. He wears neat business suits, has filled out, looks more urban than rustic. He is assertive now, aware of his responsibilities, no longer thrown off balance by publicity and whoop...