Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scandal trash such as the movie Stripper Fanne Fox made, Posse from Heaven, after she became notorious in 1974 by getting caught at the Tidal Basin with Congressman Wilbur Mills; or The Washington Fringe Benefit, the book put out by nontyping Secretary Elizabeth Ray after the whoop-de-do over her 1976 affair with Ohio Representative Wayne Hays...
...Neil Kinnock burst exuberantly into Darlington's Dolphin Center gymnasium, 1,000 supporters jumped up with a whoop. His right fist pumping air like a boxer who has just knocked out the champ, the Labor Party leader strode to the podium to accuse the Conservative government of creating a "divided kingdom," with islands of affluence surrounded by poverty. Campaigning in Edinburgh, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded that economic prosperity would "vanish like a dream" if Labor were elected. "Personal abuse," she added disdainfully, "signals panic...
...world stills, for the longest time. Then, at the edge of sleep, hyenas come to giggle and whoop. Peering from the tent flap, one catches in the shadows their sidelong criminal slouch. Their eyes shine like evil flashlight bulbs, a disembodied horror-movie yellow, phosphorescent, glowing like the children of the damned. In the morning, one finds their droppings: white dung, like a photographic negative. Hyenas not only eat the meat of animals but grind up and digest the bones. The hyenas' dung is white with the calcium of powdered bones...
...enthusiasm and applause, although they seemed hearty on television, were in fact strained. Younger conservative House members came to the chamber determined to whoop it up for a beleaguered President -- the more so because some had been warned by Republican Leader Robert Michel, who had seen an advance copy of the address, that "it ain't going to be much of a speech." The Young Turks leaped to their feet clapping and shouting at the most routine lines, pretty much forcing senior Republicans to join...
...heard a guy hollering," said Millard B. Rice '89. "I let out a little whoop, and here...