Word: yell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chicken legs, hard-boiled eggs, Madeira. He "borrowed a detective story from Mme. Litvinoff and read it while eating her lovely caviar sandwiches all the way from Kuibyshev to Teheran. Every fifteen minutes she'd say, 'Do you know who did it yet?' I would yell over the sound of the motors, 'No, and don't tell...
...Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College might as well stand for Athletic & Military. In other days nine out of ten of its students played football on one of its many school teams; all but the bedridden turned out for "yell [not cheer] practice," its rough, tough, blacksmith-armed Aggie teams romped over opponents. And last week, of 699 graduates in the class of 1942, 565 went out with Army commissions; of the remaining 134, more than half have already signed for Army and Navy aviation. Texas A. & M. turns out more officers than West Point...
Seldom has a U.S. business firm taken such a smearing as Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey got last week. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold swung the rubber hose while the Truman Committee held the victim. Before the company could even yell, it found itself blamed for the U.S. rubber shortage, slugged for playing along with the Axis. Senator Harry S. Truman had even shouted "Treason...
...event of strafing: Yell, "Hi Yo, Silver!" point finger at plane and imitate the sound of rapid gunfire. Call the Fourth Interceptor Command and demand to know where the hell our Army and Navy...
LaGuardia is still to be chief of OCD. With plenty of yell left in him, he announced that Dean Landis "will take the details of the office administration off my shoulders. I will then be able to devote more time to perfecting the organization throughout the country...