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Word: whoops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet Sunday afternoon in Shreveport, La., and two schoolboys (9 and 11) were playing cowboys & Indians in the schoolyard. One of them slung a rock-and accidentally broke a window. That set them off. With a whoop, they threw rocks and more rocks. Great was the slaughter-156 windows-in Alexander School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys Will Be Savages | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

With the stimulating announcement that the talent for the forthcoming Smoker may run from Mayor Curley to Greta Garbo, the Freshman Affairs Committee is harking back to the whoop-de-do that marked the spirited festivals of the past. The razzle-dazzle that teased through the years with Sally Rand, Beatrice Kay and Jinx Falkenberg, was conceived in an all-or-nothing spirit that merited E pennants for entertainment. Eagerly anticipating upperclass status with a yell and a holler, all Freshmen banded together to throw their shackles into the Charles and emerge with the Biggest Show Ever. They balked only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So Fully Packed | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

...Goalie whoop Batchelder still has two more years to play which should mean low goal totals for many future opponents...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

King Michael of Rumania turned 26, quietly and privately at his hunting lodge, set himself for the loud and public whoop-de-do next week on his "name day," the Feast of Michael the Archangel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Lost & Found | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...spiel: "Step right up and see Digesto the Glass Eater swallow a lighted tube of neon. . . ." Selden the Stratosphere Man climbed up to his perch on a swaying, 225-ft. pole. Air jets started blowing up the dresses of screaming women. The White Horse band beat out a brassy whoop-te-do. Cold-eyed strip-teasers dished out their ancient promises as they asked the boys for an additional four bits to see "the real show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Big Time in Dallas | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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