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...Cavett is not stopped before he gets more practice, this Nebraska citybilly, this con merchant in a Brooks Brothers special, this yahoo Yalie, this literate, witty guy, is likely to become a national habit. And then who is going to wash all those dirty dishes...
Ironically, the Yahoo-type hazing of Marshall made it more unlikely that any serious Senator would want to question him seriously. It made it all the more certain that his highly political appointment (not the first, of course, in Supreme Court history) would clear the Senate comfortably...
...heavies' heavy-handed make-up job was more yahoo than human. The hair of Edmund and Cornwall was plastered, their cheeks puffed. The two sisters looked equally horrid. Their hair must have been set with an eggbeater. Even Carnovsky's make-up, while giving his face the cast of a Biblical patriarch, seemed at times rigid enough to hide expression...
They were bearded and sweaty, and fatigue lines were etched deeply around their eyes. But they grinned, and at one point McDivitt, for the hell of it, let out a loud "Yahoo!" Before the hungry, thirsty astronauts had a chance to eat or drink anything, doctors whisked them down to sick bay for the first of a series of intensive medical tests that will continue for weeks. "I knew we'd wind up in a hospital," quipped McDivitt...
...incessant strains of obscenity and swearing." A statute of lunacy was taken out against him, and he spent the last three years of his life sunk in bestial stupor. "I am what I am," he muttered not long before his death. "I am what I am." He was a Yahoo. Yet he was Lucifer too: the great sinner was also a bringer of light...