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Word: whoops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cockpit door opens again. The master alarms start to whoop. A voice demands, "What's going on?" or "What's happening?" Then the same voice urges, "Pull with me! Pull with me!" Twenty-seven seconds into the dive, the horizontal elevators on the tail that normally operate in tandem to stabilize the aircraft wrench in opposite directions: the left side pulls to make the plane climb, the right one pushes to keep it in a dive. Gravity and the two powerful Pratt & Whitney engines on the Boeing 767 continue to force the plane down. A second later, a small shield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prayer Before Dying | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Muhammad said he had a political flyer for a Cambridge City Council candidate on his door that was taken down on Saturday. He put it back up, only to find it taken down again. Finally, at about 2 a.m., he was awakened by a loud "war whoop," followed by the sound of someone crashing into his door...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hate Graffiti Spurs Mather House Pledge | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...gorge like a gunshot, and McGuire is soaring, carving S turns into the air, swooping over a winding creek. When he lands, he is a speck on a path along the creek. He hurriedly packs his chute and then, clearly audible above the rushing water, lets out a war whoop that rises past those mortals still perched on the dam, past the commuters puttering by on the roadway, past even the hawks who circle the ravine. It is a cry of defiance, thanks and victory; he has survived another BASE jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Life On The Edge | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...most of us. Those nice accountants at Deloitte & Touche calculate that a couple with two children under 17 and an income of $50,000 -? that?s about average -- would receive an annual tax cut of $265. One car payment, maybe. As the late, great Chris Farley used to say, whoop-de-freakin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I could use the money. So could you. Why a big tax cut still isn't such a great idea | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...directorial career, maybe this is a quirky suicide note. For the actors, it's no big whoop. Young stars need to be in at least one dumb ugly movie like this one. Next year it'll make a cute-embarrassing story to tell Jay Leno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Atti-Toon | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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