Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Pugwash. To match its whoop-de-do student body, U.B.C. has a robust president. He is Dr. Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie, a bootstrap scholar, brilliant organizer and a man who gets what he wants. When Ottawa phoned one day last fall giving permission to use abandoned Army huts on the campus, "Larry" MacKenzie chuckled: he had carted them off and put them on campus some weeks before...
Whoopsidoodle. In Brooklyn, Margaret King's 18-year-old white rabbit, Bonsi Doodle, charged around her apartment going "Whoop! Whoop!" so loudly that Neighbor Robert Yetman couldn't take it, was haled into court by Owner King for abusive language...
Novelist du Maurier's romantic whoop-dedo also includes a Puritan witch, a villainess with "serpent's eyes," a secret passageway with moldering bones in it, floods of blood, and scads of Gestapolike Roundheads...
Henry Agard Wallace was doubly rewarded for his international plugging of "equal justice for all"; the African Academy of Arts and Research presented him with an African mahogany table (see cut) and a session of African whoop-te-do. Ceremonially involved were Prince Akiki Nyabongo of Uganda and K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe of Nigeria (both in flowing robes), Asadata Dafora (who did a knottily convulsive dance) and Norman Coker (who beat a drum...
...most nauseating jobs. Rejected for combat service in World War I, he got over to France, measured corpses for coffins and "had the time of my life" as an attendant in a venereal ward. Later, he became reporter for Stars & Stripes, wrote front-line stories that were "one long whoop of glory." He was blissfully happy. One of his friends was asked: "Where was Aleck while we were celebrating [the Armistice]?" "Probably in a corner, crying his eyes out," was the reply...