Word: yay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between points. patrons are permitted to clap politely, and 15-year-old girls that aren't grunting and throwing tantrums and beating Martina Navatrilova on Court Nine are allowed to squeal "Yay, Andre!" Criticism is out of the question. Booing is blasphemous. Whistling is acceptable for protesting particularly egregious line calls, but only the players can yell and scream. And they do, in direct proportion to the amount of complaining they do about crowd noise...
...hair. He directs a seamstress to stitch a new lining in a fur cape. Three minutes before showtime, Kelly joins hands with everyone for a revival-style prayer: "Thank God for making us be together," he says. "You make me so happy." The group bursts into cheers of "Yay! Yay!" and the music flicks on to the opening song, Real Love...
...snatch the ball away again just as he kicks. Unfair: a reporter remarks, "This is part of Dukakis' relentless search for a constituency shorter than himself." In a few moments it is over. The kids yell in little voices: "Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? Dukakis, Dukakis, yay!" He gives a minichat of greeting. Absolutely nothing has happened. The caravan sweeps away. Next morning, the newspapers carry a picture, sure enough, of Michael Dukakis toeing a soccer ball toward a child...
...doesn't weigh much more than a long drink of water, but even that is something of a victory. "I'm 5 ft. 5 in., and 105 now. Yay!" laughs 16-year- old Freestyler Janet Evans. When she nearly made the 1986 World Championship team at 14, she stood a towering 4 ft. 10 in. and weighed about 80 lbs. soaking wet, which is most of the time. "Everyone knew me because of my size, but I just wanted to be recognized as a good swimmer." That recognition is piling up almost as fast as the 300 to 400 laps...
...building in Addis Ababa. His father was the British Minister to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and his mother, an Irish beauty, seems to have had a knack for prophetic understatement. "My mother," says Thesiger early in this autobiography, "always maintained that the first words I said were 'Go yay,' which meant 'Go away...