Word: yell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human hero of World War II ever received a more rousing welcome. River boats tootled their greetings, sailors swarmed over the decks of adjoining ships to wave and yell at her, thousands of workmen set up a cheer. A bosun piped lean Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, aboard; he grimly surveyed the damage, examined the six Japanese flags painted beneath her bridge. Said he: "Well done." Said grinning Captain Mike Moran: "She's a grand ship...
...loves the Big Open Spaces, became Gamecaster Bob. On his new program, Sportsmen's Spotlight (Mutual's WGN, Tuesday, 7:15-7:30 C.W.T.), he championed a cause he himself had cooked up: a new way to tackle the meat shortage. Said he: Too many camp cooks yell: "Come and get it-or I'll throw it away." Every year, he declared, 435,000,000 lb. of fish and wild game are hooked and bagged in the U.S.-enough to feed an army of 5,000,000 men for 77 days. Then, tipping off listeners that northern...
Some Senators will yell "Dictatorship!" without realizing that it's their own fault. Dictatorship strikes a democracy only when it's legislature has decayed completely, and is not established by a strong man's seizing power when no one is looking. If wartime rule by the executive results from Congressional palsy, the blame will lie solely on Capitol Hill, not on the White House...
Whatever British cinemaudiences may think of Director Cummins' editorial viewpoint, bursts of applause, snorts of approval, murmurs of "Good show!" (the British equivalent of a rebel yell), indicate that they like his shorts...
Before the dispersal hut where his plane stood he had a patchy little grass plot with a sign on it: "Keep Off the Grass." He used to yell at anybody who stepped on his grass. When he took off he walked across a narrow path to his plane, but when he came back from a Big Do he was too excited to remember and his boys would trample all over the grass getting to his ship to talk about the flight. If Paddy had shot down a plane he would talk last, his brogue broadening with excitement and his fingers...