Word: yahoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Yahoo Obsession. Author Dennis studies the Travels as a morbid acrostic of Swift's character. In Part IV, for instance, there are striking suggestions that Swift at this period of his life was dangerously schizoid, that he was identifying with the rational-spiritual principle (the Houyhnhnms) and repressing the animal aspect of his nature (the Yahoos). In any case, the horror and tragedy of Swift's old age are clearly foretold in the leading characteristic of the Yahoos: their excessive concern I with ordure. From that time forward, scatological allusions litter his prose and befoul his poetry...
...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...
...Yahoo!" the wing-mustached old saddle tramp yelled, reining up in the startled dude resort of Warbag, Colo. "I'm Scandalous John McCanless, and I've got the prettiest daughter, the fastest horse, and the ugliest partner in the district, and I'm a ring-tailed screamer lookin' for a fight...