Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June to take a job at Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart in Chicago. One well-attended bash, arranged by an aide of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, had all those Texas trimmings-including a garden display of some high points in Tish's career. Later, L.B.J. helped whoop it up for a set of lyrics (to the tune of St. James Infirmary Blues) dedicated to the capital's favorite blonde...
What of Bishop and Jerstad? Where were they? Nobody knew. Jerstad's walkie-talkie battery had run out of juice. At 6:33 the base camp got another message -a whoop of triumph. The West Ridge team had done it! Hornbein and Unsoeld were on the summit and starting down...
...looked more like cowboys-and-Indians, or maybe whoop-it-up day at the rodeo. But there in U.S.-style blue jeans was Princess Anne, 12, all set to watch Daddy play in a polo tournament at Windsor. By contrast, Queen Elizabeth, 37, scorning matched mother-and-daughter garb, looked uncommonly chic, as crisply turned out as any young matron of the Virginia horsy set. Both appeared less concerned with fashion than with Prince Philip's chances. No problem, though. His team won a smashing victory...
After a warm week out in Goldwater Country, Pundit Walter Lippmann acquired "a fine sunburn" and some interesting thoughts. "I have learned,'' wrote Lippmann from Arizona, "that we must distinguish between a war party-of which I have seen no traces out here-and a war whoop party, which likes to be warlike but does not want war." What the whoopers want in Cuba, he said, "are the fruits of a successful war without having to fight." But. he added, "only an invasion, and an invasion only in the first days before the casualty lists come in. would...
...papers, Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 54, called a press conference to refute all those horrid things his colleagues were saying about him. He particularly resented a Senate speech by Delaware's Republican John J. Williams, who scorched him for his whoop-de-do European junkets and squandering of federal funds. It was a matter of racial discrimination-because he was a Negro, said the injured Powell, forgetting for the nonce that he once claimed Cherokee-white ancestry. Williams, added Powell, bought Delaware resort property that is "barred to any person not of the Aryan...