Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never seen any thing to beat it. Where the powerful and the privileged usually dine, a buffet is laid on for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Where Casals once played, the entertain ment is a sort of tribal rite in which the guests whoop it up to a Texas honky-tonk beat. The placid evening air is pierced by a singer's plangent...
...Santa Corporation hired agents of the darkest, most venal kind to destroy the movement. The people had simply had too much festivity; they were sick of it; they wanted a break from the fun. The corporate agent's most heavy-handed tactics could not persuade the people to whoop it up one week more...
...Irishman's task is not small, Harvard has not been over .500 for five years. But then again, Harvard fans can whoop it up. And they should be there early, because the Eagles will certainly fly over today...
Great Falls, Mont., knows how to whoop it up for Johannes Brahms. After hearing the blazing final chords of the Symphony No. 2 in D, townspeople jumped to their feet in a shouting five-minute ovation. As the applause started to slacken, a rancher in a sheepskin coat shouted from the balcony: "Keep on clappin' and they'll keep on play-in'!" So they did. When Conductor Maurice Abravanel, 73, and the 85 members of the Utah Symphony Orchestra responded with an encore from Handel's Water Music, the crowd in the renovated movie theater burst...
Much of this calendar esoterica can be found in Chase's Calendar of Annual Events, an oddball almanac that lists 2,300 days and events around the world. Published by William Chase, 52, of Flint, Mich., the 68-page booklet includes celebrations like Whoop-Up Days in Alberta, Canada, the Bratwurst Festival in Bucyrus, Ohio, or the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts in Singapore...