Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret: her kind of guests like to entertain each other. At Perle Mesta's parties, Harry Truman has played the piano, General Ike Eisenhower has sung Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (in a shaky baritone), Pat Hurley, without too much encouragement, has given his Comanche war whoop, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has whistled in a duet...
...Whoop Left. Almost two hours before the President showed up to take the oath of office, the men of Battery D were in their seats in the stands. They rose as one man and yelled when Harry Truman appeared. Later, they took their positions in two long lines on either side of his car-sedate-looking fellows, carrying canes-and walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine...
Doggedly, next day they went sightseeing. That night they trooped into the Shoreham for the reception given by Senator Howard J. McGrath. They had one more whoop left; that was for the President when he marched...
...players, who helped rank Harvard second in the Ivy League standings, were voted positions on the team at a meeting of New England coaches. High-scoring players like Don Louria and Whoop Batchelder did not make the champion team...
Cornell tallied in the first six minutes of play on a long shot fired from the left wing which Crimson goalie Whoop Batchelder deflected but could not stop. Within five more minutes, the big Red had scored again when a kick from a Cornell halfback bounced away from Batchelder and the center forward booted...