Word: whoop
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...small audience, obliged good naturedly, struggling, upon Schwartz’s instructions, to “blow air through mouth without pitch,” in “U.S. Indian war-whoop fashion...
...political act that is often dumbed down to a mere "attack on freedom." It's a strong tonic to the otherwise sentimental tributes. Working through his anger, Spiegelman comes up with searing images like the one where Bush and Cheney ride a giant eagle with a "Let's Roll!" whoop, while slitting its throat with a box cutter...
...water and a lot more daring under the 19-year-old guide's cool hand. Aboard the QE2 your chances of getting through a low-grade rapid without having to kick off a rock or get out and pull are much higher; in the Red Devil, we whoop with excitement as we shoot backward over small rapids. We race each other along open stretches, and glide in silence among perfect reflections, legs trailing in the cold water...
...that, the mission controllers, who in recent years have whipsawed between the devastation of the shuttle disaster and the celebration of the Mars landings, once again had reason to cheer, whoop and slap one another on the back...
...baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl, little girl, don?t you know/ Please listen to me, baby/ Girl, I?m in love with you so?). But those are just words: the first sound on the cut is a wild falsetto field whoop, then a plaintive ?well? exactly an octave lower - as if he were a woman in ecstasy and a man hurting from its lack. His voice rasps like a man whose heart is in his throat, and it?s just been broken...