Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dionne Quintuplets prepared for their third Christmas of the season-the French Canadian whoop-te-do on New Year's. (They celebrated first on Dec. 1 for "Christmas" publicity...
Lily Rons, Gertrude Lawrence, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Bert Lytell, Edmund Gwenn, Lenore Lonergan all climbed into brocades to whoop it up for United China Relief at the opening of Manhattan's Burma Road Mart...
...last week's Conference on the Cooperation of Interdenominational Agencies was the adoption of alternative Plan A, a pious proposal that the eight great agencies of U.S. Protestantism should work together more closely. After the bombing, the 200 delegates at Atlantic City put through proposal C with a whoop calling for unification of all the agencies into a new "Council of the Churches of Christ in North America...
...whoop at Atlantic City will take perhaps three years to ratify, for it must now be referred back to each of the eight agencies, each of which in turn must get the approval of each separate participating denomination...
...House, listening with marked impatience to get-right speeches by the G.O.P.'s Leader Joe Martin and Ham Fish, received with a whoop the identical Senate bill, adopted it as a substitute. The vote...