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Word: whoops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welcomes in South America. The pair were flying Power's plane in a good-will tour of their own, down the west coast and over the heaven-puncturing Andes to Argentina. In Santiago crowds choked the streets outside the actors' hotel. But Romero missed some of the whoop-te-do: somehow he had lost his footing in another hotel, back in festive Peru, and now lay abed with a cracked elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Regards to Broadway | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Rastus" Corning is a captive of Albany's notorious O'Connell machine, but the convention stage managers built a whoop-it-up show around him, paraded him, Jim Mead and dignified Herbert Lehman around the hall in red jeeps, got set to make a drive for the veterans' vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slam-Bang in New York | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho starred in a little silly-season whoop-te-do over Washington's radio station WRC. Senator Claude Pepper bravely tooted his harmonica, Congressman James Percy Priest struggled with a guitar, a quartet sang, but Taylor and his banjo took the cake with Cowboy Joe from Idaho. As the legislator "most likely to succeed in radio," he got $100 from Senator Claghorn-in Confederate money, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Bigger & Better. Although Texas had not yet called for a polio team, the largest state was not to be denied the largest whoop & holler. The sale of DDT was up 600%; old cotton-duster planes were spraying creek beds (although medical authorities question the effectiveness of such measures) ; a health official said that 20,000 outhouses were destined for a purge. A mother wrote health officials wanting to know if it "was safe to mail a letter out of San Antonio." High-school graduation ceremonies were being held by radio, to avoid assemblies. The publicity would not harm a forthcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Flying Squads | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

wife prepared to eat a fancy dish. En route to their table in Washington, as part of some fund-raising whoop-de-do in Houston, was a Texas capon that had recently won a stock-show championship. Value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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