Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patrice Lumumba to arrive for the opening of the Congo's much-heralded African "summit" conference. As Lumumba drove up elegantly in an open Lincoln Continental once reserved for Belgium's King Baudouin, the crowd suddenly hoisted signs reading "Fascist"' and "Dictator," burst into the distinctive "whoop, whoop, whoop" that is the Congolese version of a boo. Seemingly undismayed by their jeers -and by the fact that his summit conference had attracted mainly minor bureaucrats instead of the 20 heads of state he had invited-Lumumba strode to the stage of the Palace of Culture...
...make clear its unwavering support for Nixon, the Republican National Committee wound up a three-day strategy meeting in Washington by unanimously adopting a resolution praising Eisenhower and Nixon jointly for "their conduct of the people's affairs during the past 7½ years." It was a resounding whoop of support for Richard Nixon...
...latest Peterson publishing venture had its origins in a bad case of frustration. Though Texans were confident that they had the most, the biggest and the rarest North American birds, with the whooping crane ready to whoop agreement each fall, they felt neglected during the last quarter-century, when bird watching in the U.S. developed from a risible oddity to an often rugged sport. The trouble was an embarrassment of riches. A Yankee or Floridian could count on identifying any bird he saw with nothing more cumbersome than his binoculars and a single pocket volume, Peterson's Eastern Field...
...quarter-century, Ottawa approved gas exports to the U.S. of 7.3 trillion cubic feet, an amount that could fuel New York City at present rates for 80 years. The Alberta oil and gas industry, with $200 million tied up in 1,000 capped gas wells, let out a jubilant whoop. Well it might: Canada's new National Energy Board estimated that exports under the four approved licenses will earn $75.5 million a year in U.S. sales by 1963, enough for a significant dent in Canada's chronic trade deficit with...