Word: yell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solemn-faced Yank infantrymen in Normandy looked up in astonishment as a wide-smiling officer leaned out of a speeding jeep and waved. The doughboys did not know whether to wave back, salute, or just yell; some contrived to do all three. They looked at one another and grinned: "The Old Man himself...
...pain. Not drugged, mind you-they were smoking cigarets, many of them-but enough [morphine] so that they were comfortable." Said he when someone asked him how he got such a complicated organization working so smoothly: "Give a mouse a shot of hooch and he'll yell, 'Bring on the cats...
Colorado Commando. In Grand Junc tion, Colo., Herbert Krueger rushed to the aid of Russian guerrillas as they walked into a Nazi machine-gun trap, let out a bloodthirsty yell just as the cinema screen collapsed over his head, was fined $25 for disturbing the peace...
...with all this, the Chilean has many good qualities, which don't operate. In the first place, he has a good critical sense: each one of them knows that what I am telling you is the truth, but they don't have the nerve to yell it out. The Chilean has a sense of his political responsibility, which makes Chile the country with the most public opinion in South America. But it acts only in the abstract...
Hope carves up his movie scripts too-and if Bing Crosby is also in the picture, they go in for downright slaughter. To one scripter who turned up on the set of Road to Singapore, Hope hollered: "If you hear any of your dialogue, yell Bingo...